ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Are Obese People More Likely to be Single Everywhere? Examining Context-Specificity in the Association between Obesity and Relationship-Status.
- Jana Berkessel
University of Mannheim - Tobias Ebert
University of Mannheim - Andreas Nehrlich
University of Koblenz-Landau
Abstract
Employing two large-scale, cross-sectional datasets (N = 1 036 057), we examined the context-specificity of the association between obesity and relationship-status: Overall, obese individuals are less likely to be in a relationship. Crucially, this effect is stronger in regions with lower obesity rates and merely existent for high obesity rates.
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