AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE “ANTI-OBESITY” TREND AMONG ITALIAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.73193Keywords:
Obesity. Prejudice. Protocols. Body image.Abstract
This study looked into Physical Education teachers’ and students’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward obesity. Eighteen teachers and 45 students completed four questionnaires: the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which assesses stereotypes and spontaneous cognitive associations through categorizations; The Crandall questionnaire for the evaluation of explicit prejudice about obesity; The Social Dominance Orientation Scale (SDO); and the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire – short version (PSDQ-s). Both groups reported significant prejudice (p <0.05), evidenced by the mean values recorded on the IAT. Teachers reported significantly higher values than students on implicit prejudice and lower values on SDO. Social Dominance Orientation proved to be a key variable in the presence of prejudice. This study may be a starting point for future research focused on reducing prejudice through specific intervention protocols.
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