Purpose To conduct a systematic literature review of empirical peer-reviewed published studies on the prevalence of weight bias among students, pre-service, and in-service …
Obesity affects approximately one‐third of American adults. Recent evidence suggests that weight bias may be pervasive among both exercise and nutrition professionals working with …
Physical Education (PE) teachers have previous experiences that both shape their particular beliefs about the role and purpose of this school subject as well as their pedagogical …
L Zaroubi, T Samaan, AS Alberga - Journal of Obesity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Although previous studies have reported weight bias among students and professionals in exercise science, physical education, kinesiology, and fitness instruction …
The importance of the Physical Education (PE) teacher's body, particularly for teaching PE, has been highlighted in literature. PE teachers are expected to be clear role models to …
L Zuest, S Lee, J Leedeman… - Kinesiology …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
Research shows that physical activity (PA)-related professionals perpetuate weight stigma and discrimination in their practices by holding antifat attitudes. Given the adverse outcomes …
Healthism is both an ideological and a regulative discourse that manifests as a tendency to conceive health as a product of individual choice. Healthism represents a collection of taken …
SM Lee, L Zuest, J Leedeman, S Li… - Journal of American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Emerging research suggests weight-neutral approaches to health promotion are effective in supporting overall health, but they have been minimally adopted within physical …
An increasing number of studies suggest that implicit attitudes towards food and body shape predict eating behaviour and characterize patients with eating disorders (EDs). However …