Self-perceptions of the stigma of overweight in relationship to weight-losing patterns
1979
Extract: Attitudes of female adolescents in Slimnastics class in a high school and children and adolescents in an obesity clinic in a hospital were studied. Male children and female adolescents had more trouble losing weight than did female children and male adolescents. Youth who viewed overweight as both one's responsibility and as an illness that required the joint efforts of oneself and others, especially professional experts, were more successful in losing weight than those youth who believed that overweight was solely their responsibility or not at all their responsibility. Intensive focusing on one's overweight and on one's negative body image seemed to inhibit or deter weight losing for some youth.
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