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= Effects of Obesity on Interpersonal Relationships =

Types of relationships
Relationships have two aspects to them :

1. Voluntaries

Under this aspect, it refers to a peron’s wilingness to enter into a relationship or not.

Friends, co-workers and significant others fall under this category.

2. Permanences

Under this aspect, it refers to whether the person is able to terminate relationship in their life.

Parents, siblings and children fall under this category as these relationships are bound by blood ties.

Negative treatment
Negative treatment from others puts a strain on the person’s else esteem and moods. They are more likey to be accustomed to the treatment and will react negatively as well, effecting their current and/or past relationships.

A study done by Carr Deborah and Michael A. Friedman, examined the positively and negavity between underweight, normal wieght and overweight and obese individuals and thier family and friends. The study results show that about 37% of the sample is overweight. When the results are compared between normal weight individuals and type I and II obese individuals, the latter reported a higher level of strain in their relationship between friends and family.

According to Goffman, there are two categories under which people fall under when they are interacting with overweight and/or obese people. Obese people purposely interact with people who are similar to them.

They are categorized as “sympathetic others”. He says that there are two categories which these people fall under.

1. The first group of people are who carry the stigma with them. They are people who share the similar attribute (obesity), they may offer emotional and moral support along with acceptance to the other.

2. The second group is known as the “Wise Persons”. This group is composed of people who are related to the him or her, whether by blood or social. They carry of the stimatization with them, but they also accept and stand up for the stigmatized individuals. Goffman says these people are “privy to the secret life of the stigmatized individual and are sympathetic with them.”

Adolescences
Due to stigmatization of physcial appearances, there are negative effects in the person’s social interactions with others. It leads the person to stray away from their personal relatioships in life. According to R. Crosnoe, overweight adolescents are less likely to make new friends, are less likely to be a part of their school’s social networks and are less likely to be engaged in a romantic relationship.

Quality of life of obese children