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Women, work, and weight: negative assessments of women and their weight in the workplace
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Harig, Trista Nacohma Nicole. Women, work, and weight: negative assessments of women and their weight in the workplace. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-9g51-tg47

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TitleWomen, work, and weight: negative assessments of women and their weight in the workplace
NameHarig, Trista Nacohma Nicole (author); Markey, Ph.D., Charlotte (chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectWeight-based discrimination, Psychology
Extent1 online resource (v, 36 pages)
DescriptionWeight-based prejudice and discrimination are prevalent and especially notable in work settings. One-hundred and sixty undergraduate students participated in a study to examine weight stigma. They were shown images of women of different weights and offered different descriptions of their job status (no status, low status job, high status job). I hypothesized that there would be a significant association between image primes’ BMI, occupational status shown, and competency ratings, controlling for participants’ own BMI, anti-fat attitudes, weight concerns, and gender. Factorial ANCOVAs revealed that the weight of an image prime did not significantly affect competency ratings. The occupational status of an image did affect competency ratings, and anti-fat attitudes contributed significantly to the variance in said competency ratings. Future directions for reducing weight-based discrimination in the workplace are discussed.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-9g51-tg47
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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