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Avoiding exercise mediates the effects of internalized and experienced weight stigma on physical activity in the years following bariatric surgery

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Obesity, July 2018
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Title
Avoiding exercise mediates the effects of internalized and experienced weight stigma on physical activity in the years following bariatric surgery
Published in
BMC Obesity, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40608-018-0195-3
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Authors

SeungYong Han, Gina Agostini, Alexandra A. Brewis, Amber Wutich

Abstract

People living with severe obesity report high levels of weight-related stigma. Theoretically, this stigma undermines weight loss efforts. The objective of this study is to test one proposed mechanism to explain why weight loss is so difficult once an individual becomes obese: that weight-related stigma inhibits physical activity via demotivation to exercise. The study focused on individuals who had bariatric surgery within the past 5 years (N = 298) and who report a post-surgical body mass index (BMI) ranging from 16 to 70. Exercise avoidance motivation (EAM) and physical activity (PA) were modeled as latent variables using structural equation modeling. Two measures of weight stigma, the Stigmatizing Situations Inventory (SSI) and the Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS) were modified for people with a long history of extreme obesity for use as observed predictors. Exercise avoidance motivation (EAM) significantly mediated the association between both experienced (SSI) and internalized (WBIS) weight stigma and physical activity (PA) in this population. Exercise avoidance motivation, influenced by weight stigma, may be a significant factor explaining the positive relationship between higher body weights with lower levels of physical activity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 16%
Student > Master 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 17 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 12%
Sports and Recreations 5 7%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 23 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 August 2019.
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#7,345,736
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Outputs from BMC Obesity
#80
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Outputs of similar age
#122,574
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Obesity
#2
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