An Experimental Assessment of Physical Educators' Expectations and Attitudes: The Importance of Student Weight and Gender

Autor/inn/en	Peterson, Jamie Lee; Puhl, Rebecca M.; Luedicke, Joerg
Titel	An Experimental Assessment of Physical Educators' Expectations and Attitudes: The Importance of Student Weight and Gender
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 82 (2012) 9, S.432-440 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/j.1746-1561.2012.00719.x
Schlagwörter	Physical Education Teachers; Teacher Expectations of Students; Body Weight; Gender Differences; Teacher Attitudes; Obesity; Stereotypes; Individual Characteristics; Adolescents; Social Bias; Child Health; Photography; Pictorial Stimuli; Ability; Athletic Coaches; Teacher Characteristics; Socioeconomic Status; Educational Attainment; Job Satisfaction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Körpergewicht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Lehrerverhalten; Adipositas; Klischee; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Fotografie; Fantasieanregung; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit
Abstract	Background: At school, physical education (PE) teachers and coaches may be key supports for physical activity. Unfortunately, PE teachers may endorse negative stereotypes and attitudes toward overweight youth. These biases may influence the amount of instruction physical educators provide to students and their participation in PE or other physical activity. Results: Physical educators endorsed inferior ability expectations for overweight students compared to non-overweight students. Poorer performance expectations were limited to overweight female targets, but when controlling for participant characteristics, this effect became marginally significant for overweight male targets. There was a trend such that participants endorsed more external attributions for the abilities and performance of overweight female students, yet this effect was reduced to marginal significance when controlling for participant characteristics. Participants endorsed more negative attitudes for both overweight males and females compared to non-overweight youth. Conclusions: Findings indicate that physical educators' expectations, attributions, and attitudes regarding students may be negatively influenced by youth body weight, and differ by student gender. The potential effect of physical educators' weight bias on adolescent participation in physical activity and its implications for students' physical health, academic achievement, and social development are discussed. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10