Hiller D V
J Psychol. 1981 Jul;108(2d Half):233-40. doi: 10.1080/00223980.1981.9915268.
It is argued that the stigma attached to overweight or obesity often causes overweight to operate as a "master status." College students (N = 223) were asked to write stories about male and female stimulus characters who varied only in body image. It was hypothesized that subjects writing about overweight stimulus characters would be more likely than those writing about normal weight characters to (a) write sad or negative stories, (b) create unpleasant characters, and (c) describe their characters with more negative personality characteristics on a semantic differential personality scale. Support was found for part (a) and (b) of the hypothesis but not part (c). The relationships were stronger when the stimulus was a picture than when it was a descriptive paragraph and when the stimulus character was female rather than male. There was indication that female subjects were more likely to associate an overweight body image with an unpleasant personality than were male subjects.
有人认为，与超重或肥胖相关的污名往往使超重成为一种“主导地位”。研究要求223名大学生撰写关于仅身体形象不同的男性和女性刺激人物的故事。研究假设，撰写超重刺激人物故事的受试者比撰写正常体重人物故事的受试者更有可能：（a）写出悲伤或负面的故事；（b）创造令人不快的人物；（c）在语义差异人格量表上用更负面的人格特征描述他们的人物。研究结果支持了假设的（a）和（b）部分，但不支持（c）部分。当刺激是图片时，这种关系比当刺激是描述性段落时更强，并且当刺激人物是女性而不是男性时，这种关系也更强。有迹象表明，女性受试者比男性受试者更有可能将超重的身体形象与不愉快的人格联系起来。
