TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiences of weight stigma in everyday life
T2 - An ecological momentary assessment study
AU - Potter, Lindsey
AU - Meadows, Angela
AU - Smyth, Joshua
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data collection took place while the first author was supported by award T32 DA017629 from NIDA and manuscript preparation was supported by 5TL1TR002540 from the NCATS. At the time of manuscript preparation, the second author was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. The support of the ESRC is gratefully acknowledged.
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© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Weight stigma and discrimination have been linked to negative health outcomes. Most research on this topic is retrospective, which may not accurately capture day-to-day experiences. The current used ecological momentary assessment to examine weight stigma and discrimination in everyday life. Participants answered ecological momentary assessments about the nature, frequency, and contextual details of weight stigma and discrimination. Over the course of the study, only eight episodes of weight stigma and discrimination were reported. Given that prior ecological momentary assessment studies reported substantially more frequent weight stigma and discrimination, possible explanations for the findings and implications for future research are discussed.
AB - Weight stigma and discrimination have been linked to negative health outcomes. Most research on this topic is retrospective, which may not accurately capture day-to-day experiences. The current used ecological momentary assessment to examine weight stigma and discrimination in everyday life. Participants answered ecological momentary assessments about the nature, frequency, and contextual details of weight stigma and discrimination. Over the course of the study, only eight episodes of weight stigma and discrimination were reported. Given that prior ecological momentary assessment studies reported substantially more frequent weight stigma and discrimination, possible explanations for the findings and implications for future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1177/1359105320934179
DO - 10.1177/1359105320934179
M3 - Article
C2 - 32538175
AN - SCOPUS:85086374235
SN - 1359-1053
VL - 26
SP - 2781
EP - 2793
JO - Journal of Health Psychology
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
IS - 14
ER -