The Intervention Research On College Students’ Obesity Stigma

Obesity stigma refers to the individual hoid negative cognitive, negative emotional experience and discriminatory behavior to obesity groups in social interaction. In recent years,as the obese population growth in the world,obesity group are gradually being concerned by people.The researchers began to study the stigma from perspective of sociology and psychology.This article begin with obesity stigma of college students as the starting point on the basis of predecessor’s studies.193 university students’ explicit attitude and implicit attitude towards obese people have been investigated.This essay discusses whether to eliminate or weaken the obesity stigma of university students through counterstereotype strategy.The result shows:(1)Overall,the explicit attitude to obesity group among college students is generally different.Stratification is obvious.There are still a part of students show explicit stigma attitude towards obesity.The explicit stigma to obese doesn’t existed.There have no effects on gender,BMI,perception of self weight of the students’ explicit attitude towards obese.(2)Overall,the explicit attitude to obesity group among college students is generally different.Stratification is obvious.There are still a part of students show implicit stigma attitude towards obesity.There have no effects on gender,BMI,perception of self weight of the students’ implicit attitude towards obese.(3)The counterstereotype can weaken college students’ negative explicit attitude towards obesity group.The counterstereotype can eliminate the college students’ implicit stigma towards obesity group.On the long-term effect,counterstereotype strategy has persistent effect on reducing the college students’ explicit stigma and implicit stigma twwards obese.