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Experienced weight stigma, internalized weight bias, and maladaptive eating patterns among heterosexual and sexual

Abigail Thorndyke Shonrock1, J Caroline Miller2, Rhonda Byrd2

  • 1Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA. shonrocka19@students.ecu.edu.

Eating and Weight Disorders : EWD
|October 12, 2022
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Experienced weight stigmaGender identityInternalized weight stigmaMaladaptive eating patternsSexual orientation

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