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. 2016 May 3;7:647. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00647

Table 1.

Job suitability, implicit and explicit attitudes toward obesity for gender and workplace activity level (mean and standard deviation).

Measure Gender
Workplace activity level
n = 181 (107/74) Overall Male 107 Female 74 Sedentary 43 (19/24) Standing 56 (35/21) Manual 47 (24/23) Heavy Manual 35 (29/6)
Male normal weight CV 39.14 39.73 38.28 38.88 38.29 38.83 41.23
(2.80) (2.44) (3.06) (3.33) (2.85) (1.94) (1.91)
Female normal weight CV 34.65 34.19 35.32 37.47 34.34 34.81 31.49
(2.93) (2.86) (2.93) (2.96) (2.14) (1.60) (1.82)
Male obese CV 25.38 24.63 26.47 29.88 26.00 24.21 20.43
(4.12) (3.95) (4.14) (3.39) (2.82) (1.96) (2.05)
Female obese CV 23.31 22.39 24.65 29.51 24.89 20.51 16.94
(5.26) (5.24) (5.04) (3.33) (3.06) (2.18) (2.44)
Male no photo CV 30.42 30.35 30.53 32.98 30.18 29.17 29.34
(2.89) (2.53) (3.36) (3.35) (2.87) (1.74) (1.14)
Female no photo CV 28.27 27.75 29.03 31.88 29.02 27.45 23.74
(3.73) (3.93) (3.29) (3.02) (3.11) (1.32) (2.17)
IAT 0.76 0.79 0.71 0.60 0.61 0.86 1.05
(0.33) (0.34) (0.31) (0.32) (0.24) (0.24) (0.31)
ATOP 65.72 63.98 68.24 73.77 70.09 62.28 53.49
(10.52) (10.45) (10.18) (9.50) (9.06) (5.65) (3.86)
BAOP 22.79 21.35 24.88 28.37 25.48 20.68 14.46
(6.69) (6.69) (6.17) (5.14) (4.51) (4.17) (4.38)
F-scale 3.52 3.60 3.42 3.25 3.35 3.72 3.88
(0.37) (0.34) (0.39) (0.40) (0.29) (0.21) (0.12)

IAT, Implicit Association Test scores range from -1 to 1 with positive scores indicative implicit anti-fat/pro-thin bias; ATOP: Attitudes About Obese Persons scale. Scores range from 0 to 120 with lower scores indicative of negative attitudes toward obese persons; BAOP: Beliefs About Obese Persons scale scores range from 0 to 48 with lower scores indicative of stronger beliefs that obesity is controllable; F-scale: The Fat Phobia scale short form scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores indicative of higher fat phobia.