The stress of obesity stigma: Testing a model of risk and resilience

该项目旨在推进关于肥胖耻辱（以及更普遍的耻辱）的理论知识，并提供新的见解来帮助肥胖者科普耻辱。肥胖者在日常生活中经常经历耻辱，但很少有人知道为什么，何时以及对谁来说肥胖耻辱可能产生最负面的后果。该项目的目的是使用复杂的方法来测试与肥胖污名相关的风险和弹性模型，该模型预测人的特征（如过去的污名经历）和情况的特征（如肇事者是谁）决定人们如何应对污名化经历。在这个项目中测试的模型可能有助于确定减少肥胖耻辱的负面影响的方法，这将具有重要的社会和健康效益。

This project seeks to advance theoretical knowledge about obesity stigma (and stigma more generally), and also to provide novel insights into ways to help obese people cope with stigma. Obese people frequently experience stigma in their everyday lives, but little is known about why, when, and for whom obesity stigma is likely to have the most negative consequences. The aim of this project is to use sophisticated methodological approaches to test a model of risk and resilience related to obesity stigma which predicts that characteristics of the person (such as past experiences with stigma) and characteristics of the situation (such as who the perpetrator is) determine how people respond to stigmatising experiences. The model tested in this project may help identify ways to reduce the negative impact of obesity stigma, which would have important social and health benefits.