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Health Education Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, 145-152, April 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

An attempt to reduce negative stereotyping of obesity in children by changing controllability beliefs

Tracy Anesbury and Marika Tiggemann

School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia

Correspondence to: M. Tiggemann

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether changing children's beliefs about the controllability of obesity would reduce their negative attitudes toward fat people. The participants were 74 children from Grades 4–6, 42 in the experimental group and 32 in the control group. The experimental group were presented with a brief intervention which focussed on the uncontrollability of weight. The study found that the intervention was successful in reducing the amount of controllability that children assigned to obesity, but was not successful in reducing negative stereotyping of the obese among the experimental group compared to the control group. These results indicate that while children's beliefs about the controllability of obesity can be changed, reducing their negative stereotyping is more difficult.


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