BMI, Weight Discrimination, and Psychological, Behavioral, and Interpersonal Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Angelina R. Sutin; Eric Robinson; Michael Daly; Mary A. Gerend; Yannick Stephan; Martina Luchetti; Damaris Aschwanden; Jason E. Strickhouser; Ji Hyun Lee; Amanda A. Sesker; Antonio Terracciano

doi:10.1002/oby.22914

BMI, Weight Discrimination, and Psychological, Behavioral, and Interpersonal Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Obesity ◽

10.1002/oby.22914 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (9) ◽

pp. 1590-1594 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Angelina R. Sutin ◽

Eric Robinson ◽

Michael Daly ◽

Mary A. Gerend ◽

Yannick Stephan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Weight Discrimination ◽

Interpersonal Responses

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Experiences of Weight Discrimination As a Barrier to Medical Interventions

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e635912012-001 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Amanda M. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Weight Discrimination ◽

Medical Interventions

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On Weight Discrimination in Old and Young Persons.

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica ◽

10.1111/j.1748-1716.1954.tb01100.x ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 303-318 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

K. BOYAN ◽

E. JALAVISTO

Keyword(s):

Weight Discrimination

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Weight discrimination and the glass ceiling effect among top US CEOs

Equal Opportunities International ◽

10.1108/02610150910937916 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 179-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Patricia V. Roehling ◽

Mark V. Roehling ◽

Jeffrey D. Vandlen ◽

Justin Blazek ◽

William C. Guy

Keyword(s):

Glass Ceiling ◽

Ceiling Effect ◽

Weight Discrimination

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Assessing Weight Conservation Non-Verbally: The Problem of Conceptualization among African Children

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1981.49.3.851 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 851-855

Author(s):

Bernice N. Ezeilo

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Deaf Children ◽

Weight Discrimination ◽

Horizontal Movement ◽

Clinical Method ◽

African Children ◽

Third Stage ◽

Three Stages ◽

Effective Use ◽

World Environment

This study examined the criteria used by 138 Zambian children in their responses to Furth's non-verbal weight conservation test via posttest interviews. Thirty seven and seven tenths percent of the children responded by weight, 29% by size, 4.4% by size and weight, and 1.4% by size and shape. Others either did not respond at all or gave other nonrelevant responses. Of the conservers, 46% responded by weight while 53% responded by nonweight criteria. The remaining 1% gave nonrelevant responses. All were expected to respond by weight alone. These results raise some doubt about the validity of evidence for weight conservation among African children, based on Furth's non-verbal technique. To improve communication of the weight concept, it is recommended that this test be modified to include a pretraining in size-weight discrimination. A major obstacle to the effective use of the clinical method, by the non-indigenous, for the study of cognitive processes in Third World environment is the problem of verbal communication, so attempts are made to use non-verbal methods. One such attempt was made by Heron and Simonsson (3) who used Furth's non-verbal conservation test to study weight conservation by Zambian children. Furth (2) developed this technique for studying weight conservation of deaf children. It involves essentially three stages. The first requires practice with weights of different sizes. Second, there is practice with obviously equal and obviously unequal balls of plasticine. The third stage is the test. The two practice stages were to ensure that the children had fully understood that same weight was indicated by a horizontal movement of both hands simultaneously and that a judgment of heavier must be communicated by allowing the hand to fall sharply on the table.

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