Overweight as Master Status: A Replication

The study reported here is a replication of an earlier study exploring association of body image with other personality characteristics. In both studies it was predicted that overweight body image would be associated with more negative personality characteristics than normal weight body image, and evidence was found supporting the predictions. In this second study 290 college students were asked to write stories about drawings of normal and overweight males or females and to describe the personalities they created on a personality scale. They were also asked to rank groups of people including overweight and obese persons on a social distance scale. In general the replication supported the findings of the first study.