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This article is from the Research Concerning Big Folks FAQ, by sharon@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) with numerous contributions by others.

A7) Social Aspects of Fatness

[Cra1] C.S.Crandall:
"Do heavyweight students have more difficulty paying for college?",
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1991, vol. 17, pp. 606--611
Hint: The answer is yes.

[Cra2] C.S.Crandall:
"Prejudice against fat people: Ideology and self-interest"
Personality and Social Psychology, 1994, vol.66, pp. 882--894
Anti-fat prejudice is closely linked to various beliefs about
the world--that things are controllable, conservative politics,
belief in a just world, protestant ethic, and other traditional
values.

[Cra3] C.S.Crandall:
"Do parents discriminate against their own heavyweight daughters?",
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995, vol. 21, pp. 724--735
Surprisingly, yes. Furthermore, parents who endorse traditional
conservative values appear to be more likely to discriminate against
their own daughters.

[C+M] C.S.Crandall, R.Martinez:
"Culture, ideology, and anti-fat attitudes"
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996, vol. 22, pp. 1165--1176
Mexico is less anti-fat than the USA, and women there are less
concerned about their own weight than women in the USA. In addition,
anti-fat prejudice is not linked to social ideology and conservative
values in Mexico as it is in the USA.

[Gor+] Gortmaker, Aviva, Perrin, Sobol, Dietz:
"Social and Economic consequences of Overweight in
Adolescence and Young Adulthood",
New England Journal of Medicine, 1993, pp. 1008--1012

[JP] Craig R. Janes & Ivan G. Pawson:
"Migration and biocultural adaptaion: Samoans in California"
Social Science & Medicine, 1986, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 821--834

[FB] M.A.Freidman and K.D.Bromwell:
"Psychological Correlates of Obesity: Moving to the Next Research Generation"
Psychological Bulletin, vol. 117, pp. 3--20

[Go+] S.L.Gortmaker et al.:
New England Journal of Medicine, 1983, vol. 329, pp. 1008--1012

[Ros] James Rosen et al.:
"Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Negative Body Image in Obese Women"
Behaviour Therapy, Jan-Feb-Mar 1995

[Roth] E. Rothblum:
"I'll die for the revolution but don't ask me not to
diet: feminism and the continuing stigmatization of obesity"
Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders, Guildford Press,
1994, pp. 53--76

[SK] S. M. Shaw and L. Kemeny:
"Fitness promotion for adolescent girls: the impact and effectivenes
of promotional material which emphasizes the slim ideal"
Adolescence, Fall 1989, vol. 24, no. 95, pp. 677--687
This studied techniques for promoting fitness participation
amongst teenage girls. Posters used different models
(slim,average,large) and different messages (slim,active,health)
and the slim model was the most effective poster, whereas the
slim message was the least effective message. The data
indicates that promoting fitness through messages relating
slimness to fitness isn't effective, and they point out that
using very slim models may not be desirable because it
reinforces the slim stereotype.

[SS] Stunkard and Sorensen:
"Obesity and Socioeconomic Status--A Complex Relation"
Editorial in New England Journal of Medicine, 1993, vol. 324, pp. 1036--1037

[WW1] Susan C. Wooley & Orland W. Wooley:
"Obesity and Women I: A Closer Look at the Facts",
Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1979

[WW2] Susan C. Wooley & Orland W. Wooley:
"Obesity and Women II: A Neglected Feminist Topic",
Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1978

[WWD] Susan C. Wooley, Orland W. Wooley, and Susan R. Dyrenforth:
"Theoretical, Practical, and Social Issues in Behavioral Treatments of
Obesity",
Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis, 1979, vol. 12, pp. 3--25

 

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