Table 4.
Self-kindness scores by different types of weight stigma for female and male participants (crude and adjusteda mean estimates and 95% confidence intervals).
| Weight stigma item | Female | Male | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | |||||||||||
| Mean | 95% CI | P Value | Mean | 95% CI | P Value | d | Mean | 95% CI | P Value | Mean | 95% CI | P Value | d | |
| Teased about weight | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.26 | 0.006 | < 0.001 | 0.32 | ||||||||
| Yes | 16.5 | (16.0, 16.9) | 16.7 | (16.2, 17.2) | 16.5 | (15.9, 17.1) | 16.1 | (15.6, 16.6) | ||||||
| No | 18.0 | (17.6, 18.5) | 18.0 | (17.5, 18.5) | 17.5 | (17.1, 18.0) | 17.5 | (17.0, 17.9) | ||||||
| Work/School Weight Stigmab | ||||||||||||||
| Pressure to be thin | 0.009 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.23 | 0.19 | 0.11 | ||||||||
| Yes | 16.8 | (16.2, 17.3) | 16.9 | (16.4, 17.5) | 16.8 | (16.0, 17.5) | 16.6 | (15.8, 17.3) | ||||||
| No | 17.7 | (17.3, 18.1) | 17.8 | (17.3, 18.2) | 17.3 | (16.9, 17.7) | 17.1 | (16.7, 17.5) | ||||||
| Equal acceptance of all body sizes | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.24 | ||||||||
| Yes | 17.7 | (17.3, 18.0) | 17.7 | (17.3, 18.1) | 17.4 | (17.0, 17.8) | 17.3 | (16.9, 17.7) | ||||||
| No | 16.6 | (15.9, 17.3) | 16.8 | (16.1, 17.6) | 16.4 | (15.6, 17.3) | 16.0 | (15.3, 16.8) | ||||||
| Treated differently based on weight | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.05 | 0.35 | 0.22 | 0.10 | ||||||||
| Yes | 17.2 | (16.8, 17.7) | 17.3 | (16.8, 17.8) | 16.9 | (16.4, 17.4) | 16.7 | (16.2, 17.2) | ||||||
| No | 17.5 | (17.0, 17.9) | 17.5 | (17.1, 18.2) | 17.3 | (16.8, 17.8) | 17.2 | (16.6, 17.7) | ||||||
| Treated unfairly due to my weight | < 0.001 | 0.04 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.08 | 0.15 | ||||||||
| Yes | 15.6 | (14.4, 16.7) | 16.2 | (14.9, 17.5) | 16.5 | (15.5, 17.6) | 16.2 | (15.2, 17.2) | ||||||
| No | 17.6 | (17.2, 17.9) | 17.6 | (17.2, 18.0) | 17.3 | (16.9, 17.7) | 17.2 | (16.8, 17.5) | ||||||
| Comments at work about my weight | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.21 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.16 | ||||||||
| Yes | 16.1 | (15.3, 16.9) | 16.5 | (15.7, 17.3) | 16.4 | (15.6, 17.1) | 16.4 | (15.7 17.1) | ||||||
| No | 17.7 | (17.4, 18.1) | 17.7 | (17.4, 18.1) | 17.4 | (17.0, 17.9) | 17.2 | (16.8 17.6) | ||||||
| 5-item summary score; mean | −1.27 | (−1.82, −0.72) | < 0.001 | −1.08 | (−1.65, −0.50) | < 0.001 | 0.27 | −1.19 | (−1.84, −0.55) | < 0.001 | −1.22 | (−1.91, −0.54) | < 0.001 | 0.30 |
Linear regression models with robust standard errors weighted for attrition.
a
Estimates adjusted for race/ethnicity, body mass index and baseline socioeconomic status.
b
‘No’ responses were (1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Disagree); ‘Yes’ responses were (3 = Agree, 4 = Strongly agree); ‘Not applicable’ was recoded to missing.