Fig. 1

Mediated effects of internalized weight stigma in the association between perceived weight stigma and body mass index. Dashed line indicates indirect effects; solid lines indicate direct effect. Total effect of change in perceived weight stigma to change in body mass index was 0.11. Coefficients reported using unstandardized coefficients with 95% confidence interval in parentheses. Hayes’ Process Model 4 was used with 5000 bootstrapping samples