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This study aims to explore how experienced weight stigma leads to disordered eating behaviors in Chinese adolescents through the internalization of weight bias.

August 1, 2026International Journal of Eating Disorders

Weight Bias Internalization and Thinness‐Oriented Body Dissatisfaction Explain the Link Between Experienced Weight Stigma and Thinness‐Oriented Disordered Eating: A Four‐Wave Longitudinal Study in Chinese Adolescents

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WBWesley R. BarnhartSuffolk University JVJulia A. VitaglianoBoston Children's Hospital NGNathalie GulloWashington University in St. Louis

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Longitudinal study examines how weight stigma influences disordered eating through internalized bias in adolescents, suggesting areas for intervention.

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This study aims to explore how experienced weight stigma leads to disordered eating behaviors in Chinese adolescents through the internalization of weight bias.
Participants included 985 10th-grade Chinese students in a longitudinal study from 2022 to 2024.
Data were collected at four time points over 18 months (T1 to T4).
Serial mediation analyses were used to evaluate the pathways between weight stigma, bias internalization, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating.
Higher experienced weight stigma at T1 was linked to increased weight bias internalization at T2 (p<0.05).
Increased weight bias internalization at T2 predicted higher thinness-oriented disordered eating at T4 (HR not specified).
Thinness-oriented body dissatisfaction at T3 did not mediate T1 weight stigma's effect on T4 disordered eating.

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Barnhart et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6d9868e258b358b3c6bc47 https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.70181

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Longitudinal study examines how weight stigma influences disordered eating through internalized bias in adolescents, suggesting areas for intervention.

Weight Bias Internalization and Thinness‐Oriented Body Dissatisfaction Explain the Link Between Experienced Weight Stigma and Thinness‐Oriented Disordered Eating: A Four‐Wave Longitudinal Study in Chinese Adolescents

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Weight Bias Internalization and Thinness‐Oriented Body Dissatisfaction Explain the Link Between Experienced Weight Stigma and Thinness‐Oriented Disordered Eating: A Four‐Wave Longitudinal Study in Chinese Adolescents

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