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Do Psychologists Demonstrate Bias Based On Female Client Weight And Ethnicity? ;An Analogue Study, Lindsay C. Varkula
Do Psychologists Demonstrate Bias Based On Female Client Weight And Ethnicity? ;An Analogue Study, Lindsay C. Varkula
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Although anti-fat bias and discrimination have been widely documented (see Puhl, Andreyeva, & Brownell, 2008), few studies have examined whether psychologists exhibit biases toward clients who are fat. Only one study (Locker, 2011) examined whether client characteristics of ethnicity and weight influenced therapists' bias no studies have exclusively examined psychologists. This analogue study investigated psychologists' biases toward a hypothetical client (vignette adapted from Zadroga, 2009) when the client characteristics of weight (average/obese) and ethnicity (African American/European American) were manipulated. Participants in this study included a national sample of 194 licensed, currently practicing psychologists. A 2 (client weight) x 2 (client …