title: Pre-school children's attitudes to fat and normal male and female stimulus figures.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate gender differences in attitudes to obesity in pre-school children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Evaluation of gender differences in judgements of stimulus figures varying in body shape and gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-five children aged 2-5 y, 12 boys and 13 girls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forced-choice ascriptions of personal, social and behavioural traits to normal and obese male and female dolls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children ascribed more negative characteristics than positive ones to fat figures than to normal figures, and more to fat female than to fat male figures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children can demonstrate prejudiced behaviour towards obesity at earlier ages than previously thought.
authors: Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK. jturnbull@qmuc.ac.uk
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Turnbull
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Heaslip
authors: H A
authors: HA
authors: McLeod
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D012727:Sex Characteristics