Wienhues, Lina (2023) Consequences of Weight Loss Discourses on Fat Individuals. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Fat people often experience stigmatization and discrimination solely based on their weight. Some react to these stigmas by engaging in different weight-loss approaches. In society, weight-loss is talked about in different manners. We looked at the health- (e.g. losing weight for health reasons) and the not fitting-in (losing weight for reasons of physically not fitting into places) discourses surrounding weight-loss and how these affect the fat individual. A between-subjects online experiment with a convenience sample of 302 female participants was performed. The effects of three independent variables (i.e., health, fitting-in, control) were measured on three clusters of dependent variables (body-related, psychological well-being, emotions). Next, two hypotheses were posed: (1) the health discourse is expected to cause a worsening of the variables of the body-related cluster that is larger than that of the fitting-in discourse; (2) the health discourse is expected to cause a worsening of psychological well-being, whereas the not fitting in discourse is expected to cause improvements in psychological well-being. No hypothesis was confirmed, as only non-significant results were found. Many limitations were identified and include the use of the BMI for classification purposes, having forgotten attention and manipulation checks, or including only female participants. Keywords: fat-stigma; weight-loss discourses; psychological well-being; body-image
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Koc, Y. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2023 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 11:52 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1903 |
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