Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
Eat Weight Disord. 2022 Jun;27(5):1887-1893. doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01324-z. Epub 2021 Oct 26.
To examine (1) whether a wife's BMI interacts with either her husband's weight stigma or (2) her perceived weight criticisms from her husband predict husbands' and wives' psychological and relational outcomes.
The study sample consisted of 209 currently married men and women in a heterosexual relationship. Participants were drawn from an online survey platform (Qualtrics, Inc. Provo, UT) designed to approximate the US population on age, race, and region of the country. Online measures assessed husbands' weight stigma, wives' perceived weight criticisms from husband, and husbands' and wives': (1) relationship satisfaction, (2) sexual intimacy, (3) self-esteem, (4) depressive symptoms, and (5) perceptions of a desirable or ideal mate.
Wives' BMI interacted with husbands' weight stigma to predict (1) mate value for husbands and wives and (2) marital satisfaction for husbands. The same pattern was noted with interaction of wives' BMI and perceptions of husbands' weight related criticisms. The interaction reflected that higher wife BMI and higher husband weight stigma or wife perceived weight-related criticism predicted lower marital satisfaction, greater depression, and lower perceptions of a desirable or an ideal mate. Lower BMI was not associated with outcomes regardless of the husbands' weight stigma or wives' perceived weight-related criticisms.
To understand the impact of weight stigma and weight related criticisms on perceptions of a desirable or ideal mate and marital outcomes, it is important to examine the interaction with partner's BMI.
III: Evidence obtained from cohort or case-control analytic studies.
检验（1）妻子的 BMI 是否与丈夫的体重歧视相互作用，以及（2）妻子感知到来自丈夫的体重批评是否预测丈夫和妻子的心理和关系结果。
研究样本由 209 名目前处于异性恋关系中的已婚男女组成。参与者来自一个在线调查平台（Qualtrics，Inc. Provo，UT），旨在在年龄、种族和所在地区上近似美国人口。在线测量评估了丈夫的体重歧视、妻子感知到的来自丈夫的体重批评，以及丈夫和妻子的：（1）关系满意度，（2）性亲密，（3）自尊，（4）抑郁症状，和（5）对理想伴侣的看法。
妻子的 BMI 与丈夫的体重歧视相互作用，预测（1）丈夫和妻子的配偶价值，以及（2）丈夫的婚姻满意度。妻子的 BMI 与对丈夫体重相关批评的感知相互作用，呈现出相同的模式。这种相互作用反映出，妻子 BMI 较高且丈夫体重歧视或妻子感知到的体重相关批评较高，预测婚姻满意度较低、抑郁程度较高，对理想伴侣的看法较低。无论丈夫的体重歧视或妻子感知到的体重相关批评如何，较低的 BMI 与结果无关。
为了理解体重歧视和体重相关批评对理想伴侣看法和婚姻结果的影响，重要的是要检查与伴侣 BMI 的相互作用。
III：来源于队列或病例对照分析研究的证据。
