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    Prejudicial Attitudes towards Weight and Disability in Relation to One's Psychological Well-being in a Sample of Lebanese University Students
    (2016) Eve Riachi
    The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between one's prejudicial attitudes mainly weight and disability bias and one's own psychological well-being even after controlling for demographics and personal characteristics, mainly self-esteem and religiosity in a sample of Lebanese university students. 189 Lebanese university students of both sexes aged 18 to 38 participated in this study and completed the questionnaire pack that was formed of the demographics sheet, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Ryff Psychological Well-Being Scale, the Revised Anti-Fat Attitude Scale, and the Attitude towards Disabled People Scale. The results showed a significant relationship between one's psychological well-being and holding prejudicial attitudes towards weight and physical disability. As suspected a correlation between these two types of prejudicial attitudes was also found further verifying the presence of a prejudicial syndrome. The unsuspected finding was the absence of variance between males and females concerning prejudicial attitudes.