Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue in an Unjust World

Nutter, Sarah

Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue in an Unjust World

dc.contributor.advisor	Russell-Mayhew, Shelly K.
dc.contributor.author	Nutter, Sarah
dc.contributor.committeemember	Arthur, Nancy Marie
dc.contributor.committeemember	Ellard, John H.
dc.date	2019-11
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-06T21:48:43Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-06T21:48:43Z
dc.date.issued	2019-08-26
dc.description	The manuscript included in Chapter 3 is now published. The full citation for this manuscript is: Nutter, S., Russell-Mayhew, S., Ellard, J. H., & Arthur, N. (2020). Reducing unintended harm: Addressing weight bias as a social justice issue in counselling through justice motive theory. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 51(2), 106-114 https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000279
dc.description.abstract	Weight bias is a widespread and persistent form of stigma. It negatively impacts individuals with large bodies across the lifespan and in multiple social contexts. The current research addresses two important gaps in weight bias literature: (1) the limited understanding of the nature of weigh bias, and (2) the limited direct connection of weight bias literature to social justice. This research connects weight bias literature to diverse approaches to social justice (distributive justice, procedural justice, and ecological justice) that provide the opportunity to more strongly situate weight bias as a social justice issue. Connecting this to counselling psychology, the current research also considers the implications of weight bias as a social justice issue for the education and practice of counselling psychologists. To contribute to the limited understanding of the nature of weight bias, this research extends previous correlational research on the relationships between the belief in a just world and weight bias. Utilizing justice motive theory, the impact of the justice motive on perceptions of individuals with large bodies, both within and outside of counselling, are considered. This consideration is followed by three experimental investigations of the impact of the justice motive on perceptions and evaluations of individuals with large bodies. The current research provides directions for both furthering our understanding of the nature of weight bias through consideration of the justice motive as well as for furthering the connection between weight bias and conversations related to social justice, with the goal of working towards equality for individuals of all body sizes.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Nutter, S. (2019). Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue in an Unjust World (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36956
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/110878
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	weight bias	en_US
dc.subject	social justice	en_US
dc.subject	justice motive	en_US
dc.subject	counselling psychology	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Guidance and Counseling	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychology	en_US
dc.title	Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue in an Unjust World	en_US
dc.type	doctoral thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Psychology	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopy	false	en_US