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Perceived vulnerability to disease and antifat attitudes in a sample of children and teenagers.
Magallares, Alejandro; Jauregui-Lobera, Ignacio; Carbonero-Carreño, Rocio; Ruiz-Prieto, Inmaculada; Bolaños-Ríos, Patricia; Cano-Escoriaza, Asuncion.
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  • Magallares A; Social Psychology Department, Spanish Open University (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
  • Jauregui-Lobera I; Pablo de Olavide University, Carretera de Utrera s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain. ignacio-ja@telefonica.net.
  • Carbonero-Carreño R; IES Atenea, Mairena del Aljarafe, Seville, Spain.
  • Ruiz-Prieto I; Behavioural Sciences Institute, Seville, Spain.
  • Bolaños-Ríos P; Behavioural Sciences Institute, Seville, Spain.
  • Cano-Escoriaza A; Social Psychology Department, Spanish Open University (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
Eat Weight Disord ; 20(4): 483-9, 2015 Dec.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26420299
PURPOSE: Perceived vulnerability to disease (beliefs about personal susceptibility to contracting an infectious disease) is usually related to the expression of prejudice towards different stigmatized groups. In this study, the relationship between this variable and the expression of the prejudice towards obese people was analyzed. METHOD: The sample comprised a total of 137 children and teenagers, aged between 12 and 17 years, from a Spanish high school who fulfilled several scales which measure perceived vulnerability to disease, antifat attitudes and perceived controllability of weight. Additionally, body mass index (BMI) was calculated by means of the participants' height and weight. RESULTS: Perceived infectability (one of the factors of the perceived vulnerability to disease scale) was negatively related to controllability of weight, and germ aversion (the second factor of the vulnerability scale), showed a positive relationship with the antipathy towards obese people. Finally, perceived controllability of weight was positively correlated with BMI. CONCLUSIONS: The implications of these results in the field of the study of the prejudice toward obese people are discussed. To our knowledge, no other studies have investigated the relationship between perceived vulnerability to disease and antifat attitudes in minors. Additionally, this is the first time that the measured BMI has been used instead of the self-reported one.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Actitud Frente a la Salud / Susceptibilidad a Enfermedades / Obesidad Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Adolescent / Child / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Eat Weight Disord Asunto de la revista: GASTROENTEROLOGIA / METABOLISMO Año: 2015 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: España Pais de publicación: Alemania
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Actitud Frente a la Salud / Susceptibilidad a Enfermedades / Obesidad Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Adolescent / Child / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Eat Weight Disord Asunto de la revista: GASTROENTEROLOGIA / METABOLISMO Año: 2015 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: España Pais de publicación: Alemania