Thin idealization as a mediator between appearance conversations with friends and negative attitudes towards obesity.

• Main Author: Yim, Chee Weng.
• Other Authors: Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39675
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The goal of this paper was to investigate firstly the relationship between negative attitudes toward obesity and the stigmatization of obese others. Relations among appearance conversations with friends, thin idealization and negative attitudes towards obesity were also examined in 481 Singaporean s...