Table 2.

Distribution of ED stigma.

Variable	Total Number of Studies	Target(s)	Main Results		Reference
			Most Stigmatizing Group	Least Stigmatizing Group
Gender	14	EDs/AN/BN/BED	Men	Women	[7,8,25,26,27,31,33,47,58,59,62,65,66,67]
Familiarity with EDs	8	EDs/AN/BN	Unfamiliar people	Familiar people	[25,26,27,32,46,47,60,61]
Age	4	AN/BN	Young adults	Old adults	[25,31,61,64]
Education	4	AN/BN	People with low education	People with high education	[31,60,61,64]
Symptoms of EDs	2	AN	People with a low level of symptoms	People with a high level of symptoms	[30,66]
Degree program	2	EDs/AN	Medicine, sociology, education, science, economics, law, and statistics students	Psychology students	[7,25]
Income	2	AN/BN	People with low income	People with high income	[31,64]
Weight category	1	AN/BN	Normal-weight and overweight people	Underweight people	[25]
Ethnicity	1	EDs	African Americans	Caucasian Americans	[66]
Information/knowledge about EDs	1	EDs	Uninformed people	Informed people	[47]
Just world belief	1	EDs	Believers	Non-believers	[68]

Note: EDs: eating disorders; AN: anorexia nervosa; BN: bulimia nervosa; BED: binge eating disorder.