Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Obes Facts. 2012;5(6):897-918. doi: 10.1159/000346259. Epub 2012 Dec 22.
Overweight and obese persons are vulnerable to frequent stigmatization and discrimination because of their weight. Despite widespread prejudice towards obese persons, many questions remain regarding the nature, extent, and impact of weight-based stigmatization experienced by so many people. However, improving our knowledge in this area will only be as good as the measures we have to study this phenomenon. Our paper is the first to provide a comprehensive summary of published quantitative self-report measures available for assessing experiences of weight stigmatization in children and adults.
This review examined 22 measures of self-reported weight stigmatization and highlights the strengths and limitations of existing assessment.
Existing measures contain a number of limitations and have been assessed in samples lacking diversity. Improvements in measurement are needed to achieve a clearer understanding of the nature and extent of self-perceived weight stigmatization and to develop measures that accurately reflect this type of stigmatization.
Specific directions for future research that will help improve measurement of self-perceived weight stigmatization and advance this area of study are highlighted.
超重和肥胖的人由于体重原因容易受到频繁的歧视和侮辱。尽管人们对肥胖者存在普遍的偏见，但对于许多人所经历的基于体重的污名化的性质、程度和影响，仍有许多问题需要探讨。然而，只有我们有研究这种现象的方法，我们在这方面的知识才能得到提高。我们的论文首次全面总结了已发表的用于评估儿童和成人体重污名化体验的定量自我报告测量方法。
本综述检查了 22 种自我报告的体重污名化测量方法，并强调了现有评估方法的优点和局限性。
现有的测量方法存在许多局限性，并且在缺乏多样性的样本中进行了评估。需要改进测量方法，以更清楚地了解自我感知的体重污名化的性质和程度，并开发出更准确地反映这种污名化的测量方法。
强调了未来有助于改善自我感知体重污名化测量和推动这一研究领域的具体研究方向。
