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Lack of guilt, shame, and remorse following weight stigma expression: a real-time assessment pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Weight stigma is pervasive and is associated with negative health and psychological outcomes. Few studies have examined weight stigma perpetration or the emotions individuals experience after perpetrating weight stigma. This study used experience sampling to explore the nature and frequency of weight stigma behaviors and cognitions and moral emotions (shame, guilt, remorse, pride) in the perpetrator following weight stigma perpetration.

Methods

Participants were college students (N = 31, 77.1% female). Participants completed baseline measures of anti-fat attitudes and one week of experience sampling phone prompts assessing: (1) weight stigma behaviors and cognitions and (2) moral emotions. Generalized estimating equation analyses were used to model trajectories of moral emotions after weight stigma events.

Results

Thirty-one participants reported 1,008 weight stigma events over 7.5 days. Feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse decreased after weight stigma perpetration. Individuals also reported feeling less proud after engaging in weight stigma.

Conclusions

Weight stigma occurs frequently as reported by perpetrators. A lack of remorse, guilt, and shame is evident in undergraduates after they express weight stigma; however, individuals in this study also reported feeling less pride after perpetration. This study highlights the need for future studies to explore the expression of weight stigma from the perspective of perpetrators instead of targets. Results highlight the pervasiveness and normative nature of weight stigma perpetration in everyday life and the need to better understand the emotional response following weight stigma perpetration as a potential mechanism of its perpetuation.

SUBMITTER: Trojanowski PJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7761191 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lack of guilt, shame, and remorse following weight stigma expression: a real-time assessment pilot study.

Trojanowski Paige J PJ Breithaupt Lauren L Negi Sonakshi S Wonderlich Joseph J Fischer Sarah S

PeerJ 20201222

<h4>Objective</h4>Weight stigma is pervasive and is associated with negative health and psychological outcomes. Few studies have examined weight stigma perpetration or the emotions individuals experience after perpetrating weight stigma. This study used experience sampling to explore the nature and frequency of weight stigma behaviors and cognitions and moral emotions (shame, guilt, remorse, pride) in the perpetrator following weight stigma perpetration.<h4>Methods</h4>Participants were college ...[more]

PMID: 33391863

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Lack of guilt, shame, and remorse following weight stigma expression: a real-time assessment pilot study.

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Lack of guilt, shame, and remorse following weight stigma expression: a real-time assessment pilot study.

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