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Table 1 Explicit attitudes towards obesity for gender, age, BMI and exercise frequency (mean and standard deviation) among UK adults aged 18–65 years in 2009–2010

From: UK adults’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards obesity: a cross-sectional study

Measure

 

Gender

Age (years)

BMI (kg/m2)

Exercise Frequency (hours per week)

n

 

Male

Female

18–25

26–35

36–50

51–65

<18.5

18.5–24.9

25–29.9

≥30

0–3

4–7

8+

613

1767

1374

542

329

135

166

1518

440

256

1019

943

418

ATOP

64.10

61.10

65.14

63.15

65.39

66.34

63.12

63.33

63.85

64.64

65.17

64.75

64.24

62.22

(15.53)

(16.53)

(15.03)

(15.50)

(15.12)

(15.68)

(16.24)

(16.19)

(15.40)

(15.04)

(16.64)

(15.15)

(15.69)

(15.95)

BAOP

14.65

15.12

14.48

14.15

14.96

16.17

14.73

16.08

14.08

14.84

16.75

15.06

14.37

14.25

(6.65)

(6.70)

(6.62)

(6.20)

(6.76)

(7.77)

(7.03)

(7.50)

(6.27)

(6.65)

(7.64)

(6.76)

(6.62)

(6.39)

AFAS

15.39

16.73

14.93

15.87

14.78

14.41

15.33

15.27

15.97

14.86

12.93

14.85

15.59

16.27

(4.37)

(4.46)

(4.24)

(4.38)

(4.21)

(4.34)

(4.36)

(4.78)

(4.21)

(4.23)

(4.31)

(4.15)

(4.32)

(4.83)

F-Scale

3.74

3.80

3.72

3.77

3.70

3.67

3.76

3.72

3.79

3.71

3.55

3.71

3.77

3.77

(0.47)

(0.50)

(0.47)

(0.48)

(0.45)

(0.48)

(0.49)

(0.48)

(0.46)

(0.46)

(0.51)

(0.46)

(0.47)

(0.52)

  1. ATOP, BAOP Attitudes About Obese Persons Scale and Beliefs About Obese Persons Scale, AFAS Anti-Fat Attitudes Scale, F-Scale The Fat Phobia Scale short form