Once a skater moves up the ranks, though, everything is picked apart -- including their costume, hair color and style, weight, attitude, you name it.
Social desirability bias may have led to under-reporting of both general weight stigma attitudes and negative attitudes towards the patient.
Higher levels of general weight stigmatising attitudes were associated with less positive attitudes towards caring for the patient, irrespective of the patient's weight.
The interaction between this contrast variable and AFAT level was not significant, indicating that general weight stigmatising attitudes did not moderate the impact of patient BMI on attitudes towards caring for the patient.
Have your say!" and called for obese individuals to discuss their experiences with their weight, their attitudes towards current public health messages about obesity, and societal attitudes towards obesity.
The addition of the interaction terms at Step 3 was not significant, indicating that neither weight stigmatising attitudes nor participant BMI significantly moderated the impact of patient BMI on attitudes towards caring for the patient.
Participants' weight stigma attitudes were assessed using Lewis et al.'s [ 30] Anti-Fat Attitudes Test (AFAT).
The more participants indicated that they held weight stigmatising attitudes, however, the worse their perceptions of patient self-management and care, and the more negative their attitudes were towards providing care for patients.
"When people saw, especially men, that I worked and carried my weight, their attitudes changed," she says with obvious pride.
Study 2 had a high prevalence of weight stigma attitudes and demonstrated the occurrence of unhealthful eating and binge drinking behaviors.
