Implicit Attitudes Towards Weight, One’s Own Body and its Relation to Food in Women with Overweight and Obesity

Abstract Background Theoretical models emphasize the importance of implicit self-related weight attitudes for maintenance body dissatisfaction. Even though dissatisfaction is increased in obesity, only general weight-related have been investigated so far. Therefore, present study assessed and their relation to food. Methods Women with overweight obesity (OW; n = 71) women normal (NW; 44) completed three tasks (1) assess towards persons general, (2) one’s own body, (3) association between Results While both groups showed an preference relative overweight, OW a significantly stronger negative attitude food body. Additionally, not correlated eating pathology. Conclusions The results highlight pathology obesity. Targeting these might help improve treatments.