Lack of discipline, lack of responsibility and low level of resilience are just some of the prejudices that Overweight people face.

Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Lotte Rose Social work the question went to the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences students of the bachelor’s degree, what is the influence of the critical image of society of Obesity has on the victims themselves.

How to cope with women and men with a high body weight is the way you live and how you speak about yourself and your life?

And there are gender differences in the use and presentation of one’s own life in relation to the ‘Problem of Obesity’?

Men and women with Overweight different

“The ‘Problem of Obesity’ and the necessary prevention measures will be spoken very much in public, so far there is little empirical Knowledge about how it is actually people, which correspond to the propagated weight standards,” explains Professor Rose is the Motivation behind the study-project at the Hochschule in Frankfurt.

Over the course of two years, students in the module led, therefore, “discrimination against people with a high body weight” and the biographical Interviews with currently or formerly obese individuals.

In the gallery: These Stars have significantly decreased

124 reports came about so, of these, 92 women and 32 men.

Following the largely freely held Interviews of the students were evaluated then summarized and weighted, so that at the end of a kind of journalist was portrait.

From this, in turn, interesting conclusions could be drawn: Not only in terms of the relevance of weight loss for the feel, but also in terms of the different views of men and women on this topic.

Only after Removing the weight to the language

The conversation in the Interviews was designed so that respondents were asked to tell without the submitted questions as free as possible from your life.

It was noticeable that the Interviewees received from hardly on its own weight, but the focus of the conversation to other issues in your life that is loaded.

It was a different picture, however, if your own success story in the area of Slimming existed.

In this case, the experience of the own weight reduction was described as “really Significant” in your own life, and took up a lot of space in the narratives.

Both men and women reported a significant gain in prestige through your weight loss success and how to Thin is a “completely new life” have been initiated.

At the same time both sexes to describe the transformation process as a highly labour-intensive and demanding.

Women perceive Obesity as a risk for your family

Of particular importance for women, that they saw the success with weight loss in direct relation with an improved perceived role as a wife and mother.

The weight reduction was perceived by them as not only a self-determined decision-making, but also as a part of commitment and caring for others. In men, such a description was not.

Women were, however, in this context, the range of family difficulties that had been caused by the Obesity rise: Started in problematic pregnancies, about the feeling, not the usual post – game activities, to the shame, to want to be with the child do not show in Public.

A man and a woman to define “a good life” differently

It is surprising, therefore, that women have recognised that this is mainly intact family relations course, when it came to the question of what would characterize a good life.

Especially the love relationship with the Partner was assessed as high, and the experience, to be sought after, predominantly viewed as something which was perceived in the light of one’s own body as a surprising or particularly precious.

Although men were in intact romantic relationships, if you were asked, as a happy life for you look like.

A large share of the personal happiness you wrote, however, group memberships outside of the family. Mainly on the fulfilment by the active Association in a football been discussed very often.

Similar to the women in terms of their family here, too, the motive of social recognition could be seen As came up in some Interviews even explicitly, that there is need for a compensatory appreciation of social performance, if one wanted to not be excluded as a thicker person.

Source

• Gender and women’s studies centre: gender orders of the discrimination, thicker body. A study of the biographies of people with a high body weight, retrieved on 21.01.2020: https://www.gffz.de/forschung/aktuelle-forschungsprojekte/gender-und-gewicht

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