The DOI matches its Crossref record; 11 of the 11 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Gender differences in the relationship of weight-based stigmatisation with motivation to exercise and physical activity in overweight individuals
Open accessAbstract
Weight stigma is related to lower levels of motivation to exercise in overweight and obesity. This study explored the nature of the relationship between stigma, motivation to exercise and physical activity while accounting for gender differences. Participants were 439 adults with overweight and obesity (mean body mass index = 32.18 kg/m 2 , standard deviation = 4.09 kg/m 2 ). Females reported significantly more frequent stigma experiences than males. Mediation models found a conditional direct effect of weight stigma for males, with higher frequency of stigma experiences related to higher levels of walking and vigorous physical activity. A conditional indirect effect was found for females for walking, moderate and vigorous levels of physical activity, with higher weight stigma related to lower autonomous motivation, and lower levels of physical activity. Findings suggest that males and females are affected differently by weight-stigma experiences.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Correlative and randomized-controlled studies show that experience of weight stigma is linked with lower physical activity, higher exercise avoidance, unhealthy diets, sedentary behaviors, increased obesity and weight gain over time, and increased risk of transitioning from overweight to obesity in adults and adolescents.
“Correlative and randomized-controlled studies also show that experience of weight stigma is linked with lower levels of physical activity, higher exercise avoidance29–31, consumption of unhealthy diets, and increased sedentary behaviors1–3, as well as increased obesity and weight gain over time32, and increased risk of transitioning from overweight to obesity in both adults and adolescents33–35.”
From Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity (2020) · cites this paper as [30]
Split into 2 atoms — 1 confirmed, 1 partially supported, 0 disputed, 0 misattributed, 0 unverifiable. Expand the claim to see per-atom verdicts.
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
the CONSORT Group, Schulz, K. F., Altman, D. G., & Moher, D. (2010) · BMC Medicine · doi:10.1186/1741-7015-8-18 · Cited by 13,371
Guh, D. P., Zhang, W., Bansback, N., Amarsi, Z., Birmingham, C. L., & Anis, A. H. (2009) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-88 · Cited by 3,855
CONSORT 2010 statement: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
Schulz, K. F., Altman, D. G., & Moher, D. (2010) · Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics · doi:10.4103/0976-500x.72352 · Cited by 2,165
CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
the CONSORT Group, Schulz, K. F., Altman, D. G., & Moher, D. (2010) · Trials · doi:10.1186/1745-6215-11-32 · Cited by 1,871
Magkos, F., Fraterrigo, G., Yoshino, J., Luecking, C., Kirbach, K., Kelly, S. C., de las Fuentes, L., He, S., Okunade, A. L., Patterson, B. W., et al. (2016) · Cell Metabolism · doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2016.02.005 · Cited by 886 · cited 1×
“However, just a 5 per cent reduction in body weight in individuals with obesity can result in significant improvements in risk factors associated with these medical conditions (Magkos et al., 2016).”
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
Fikkan, J. L., & Rothblum, E. D. (2012) · Sex Roles · doi:10.1007/s11199-011-0022-5 · Cited by 455
Silva, M. N., Vieira, P. N., Coutinho, S. R., Minderico, C. S., Matos, M. G., Sardinha, L. B., & Teixeira, P. J. (2010) · Journal of Behavioral Medicine · doi:10.1007/s10865-009-9239-y · Cited by 448
Motivation, self-determination, and long-term weight control
Teixeira, P. J., Silva, M. N., Mata, J., Palmeira, A. L., & Markland, D. (2012) · International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-22 · Cited by 422
Internalized Societal Attitudes Moderate the Impact of Weight Stigma on Avoidance of Exercise
Vartanian, L. R., & Novak, S. A. (2011) · Obesity · doi:10.1038/oby.2010.234 · Cited by 381 · cited 21×
“Research utilising retrospective measures has found that weight-based stigma experiences are reported to occur in overweight and obese samples on average ‘once in a life-time’, with mean values ranging in frequency from ‘never’ to ‘once per month’ (Myers and Rosen, 1999; Vartanian and Novak, 2011; Vartanian and Shapro…”
InfluentialHunger, J. M., Major, B., Blodorn, A., & Miller, C. T. (2015) · Social and Personality Psychology Compass · doi:10.1111/spc3.12172 · Cited by 332 · cited 4×
“In contrast, if females overestimate their weight, then they may be more susceptible (sensitive) to stigma-related experiences (Hunger et al., 2015; Seacat and Mickelson, 2009).”
InfluentialThe experience of weight stigma among gym members with overweight and obesity.
Schvey, N. A., Sbrocco, T., Bakalar, J. L., Ress, R., Barmine, M., Gorlick, J., Pine, A., Stephens, M., & Tanofsky-Kraff, M. (2017) · Stigma and Health · doi:10.1037/sah0000062 · Cited by 81
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 43
- 10.1038/oby.2008.35 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.09.006 · DOI
- 10.1080/21662630.2015.1047881 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.003 · DOI
- 10.1177/1359105317692855. · DOI
- 10.1037/14805-018 · DOI
- Colley RC, Garriguet D, Janssen I, et al. (2011) Physical activity of Canadian adults: Accelerometer results from the 2007 to 2009 Canadian health measures survey. Health Reports 22: 7–14.
- 10.1080/00031305.1981.10479327 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1249/01.MSS.0000078924.61453.FB · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800922 · DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4899-2271-7 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1001/archpedi.157.8.733 · DOI
- 10.1542/peds.110.2.e23 · DOI
- 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1999.tb00716.x · DOI
- 10.1080/00223980209604820 · DOI
- Hayes AF (2013) Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-based Approach. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
- 10.1207/s15324834basp2703_8 · DOI
- 10.1002/oby.20891 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2014.08.014 · DOI
- 10.1007/s12160-009-9083-x · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.01.010 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800765 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.appet.2016.02.032 · DOI
- 10.1177/1359105313520338 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2014.03.005 · DOI
- 10.1038/oby.2006.208 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1038/ijo.2008.22 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.06.002 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.12.005 · DOI
- 10.1038/oby.2011.204 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1038/oby.2003.142 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1177/1359105309103575 · DOI
- 10.1177/1359105314525067 · DOI
- 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181f3818f · DOI
- 10.1111/obr.12343 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0070048 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/j.cct.2015.10.008 · DOI
- 10.1002/osp4.11 · DOI
- 10.1177/1359105307084318 · DOI
- 10.1016/j.jcbs.2014.01.003 · DOI
- 10.1111/j.1751-9861.2006.tb00021.x · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/j.psychsport.2012.03.009 · DOI
- 10.1177/1359105309355339 · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity
Rubino, F., Puhl, R. M., Cummings, D. E., Eckel, R. H., Ryan, D. H., Mechanick, J. I., Nadglowski, J., Ramos Salas, X., Schauer, P. R., Twenefour, D., et al. (2020) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0803-x · Cited by 1,152
“Correlative and randomized-controlled studies also show that experience of weight stigma is linked with lower levels of physical activity, higher exercise avoidance [29] [30] [31] , consumption of unhealthy diets, and increased sedentary behaviors 1-3 , as well as increased obesity and weight gain over time 32 , and i…”
BackgroundWeight stigma as a psychosocial contributor to obesity.
Puhl, R. M., Himmelstein, M. S., & Pearl, R. L. (2020) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/amp0000538 · Cited by 452
Wiss, D. A., Avena, N., & Gold, M. (2020) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu12113521 · Cited by 66
Galan-Lopez, P., Sanchez-Oliver, A. J., Pihu, M., Gísladóttír, T., Domínguez, R., & Ries, F. (2019) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu12010077 · Cited by 42
Braun, T. D., Gorin, A. A., Puhl, R. M., Stone, A., Quinn, D. M., Ferrand, J., Abrantes, A. M., Unick, J., Tishler, D., & Papasavas, P. (2021) · Obesity Surgery · doi:10.1007/s11695-021-05392-z · Cited by 29
Toft, B. S., Nielsen, C. V., & Uhrenfeldt, L. (2020) · Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen · doi:10.1016/j.zefq.2020.05.004 · Cited by 5
Metadata
- Authors
- Sattler, K. M., Deane, F. P., Tapsell, L., & Kelly, P. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Wollongong (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Sattler, Krystal M
- Venue
- Health Psychology Open
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2055102918759691-2055102918759691
- ISSN
- 2055-1029 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5846936
- OpenAlex
- W2790698711
- Cited by
- 150
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 10.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health Psychology Open (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Government
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity and Health Practices
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Keywords
- weight stigma, gender differences, exercise motivation, physical activity, overweight, obesity, autonomous motivation, walking, high-intensity exercise, mediation
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
