Supplementary Material Social dominance orientation, dispositional empathy, and need for cognitive closure moderate the impact of empathy-skills training, but not patient contact, on medical students’ negative attitudes toward higher-weight patients Angela Meadows*, Suzanne Higgs, Sara E Burke, John F Dovidio, Rebecca M Puhl, Michelle van Ryn, Sean M Phelan* * Correspondence: Corresponding Authors Angela Meadows:
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Supplementary Table 2. Bivariate correlations between variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1. BMI 1 -.07§ .18§ .05‡ -.03 .15§ .07§ .09§ Y1 Anti-fat attitudes 2. AFAQ-Dislike 1 .20§ .42§ .11§ -.17§ -.04† -.03 3. AFAQ-Fear of fat 1 .19§ .02 -.02 -.00 -.01 4. AFAQ-Willpower 1 .10§ -.03 .02 .02 5. IAT-Weight 1 -.05† .01 -.00 Frequency of contact with higher-weight individuals 6. Pre-medical school 1 .24§ .23§ 7. Staff, faculty, interns 1 .68§ 8. Medical students 1 9. Patients Favorability of contact with higher-weight individuals 10. Pre-medical school 11. Staff, faculty, interns 12. Medical students 13. Patients Y1 Individual difference variables 14. Elitism 15. Egalitarianism 16. Cognitive empathy 17. Emotional empathy 18. NFC – Seizing 19. NFC - Freezing 20. Social desirability responding Perspective-taking skills training 21. Hours of training Y4 Anti-fat attitudes 22. AFAQ-Dislike 23. Negative attitudes toward higher-weight patients AFAQ, Anti-fat Attitudes Questionnaire; IAT, Implicit Association Test; NFC, Need for closure † p < .05 ‡ p < .01 § p < .001
9 -.01
10 .05‡
11 .00
12 .03
13 -.01
14 .03
15 -.06‡
16 -.03
17 -.06‡
18 -.04‡
19 .02
20 -.06‡
21 -.01
22 -.05‡
23 -.06§
.00 .03† .05‡ .03
-.44§ -.11§ -.25§ -.07‡
-.22§ -.04‡ -.11§ -.05†
-.23§ -.05‡ -.11§ -.06†
-.25§ -.08§ -.17§ -.09§
.31§ .07§ .26§ .05†
-.24§ -.04† -.29§ -.07‡
-.25§ -.03§ -.18§ -.05†
-.34§ -.01 -.24§ -.03
.05‡ .12§ .05‡ .03
.20§ .09§ .17§ .07‡
-.25§ -.11§ -.23§ -.05†
-.00 .03 -.04† -.03
.56§ .15§ .32§ .10§
.45§ .14§ .35§ .09§
.14§ .20§ .10§ 1
.28§ .24§ .09§ .03
.10§ .12§ .09§ .09§
.11§ .12§ .10§ .08§
.12§ .13§ .13§ .01
-.05‡ .00 .02 -.04†
.02 -.07§ -.07§ .00
.12§ .03 .02 .06§
.09§ -.01 -.00 .03
-.08§ -.05‡ -.05‡ -.05‡
-.12§ -.04‡ -.04† -.05‡
.03 -.01 -.01 -.02
.03 .08§ .06§ .01
-.15§ -.08§ -.05‡ -.03
-.15§ -.09§ -.08§ -.03
1
.25§ 1
.27§ .82§ 1
.30§ .65§ .65§ 1
-.14§ -.12§ -.12§ -.12§
.16§ .10§ .08† .11§
.17§ .11§ .13§ .13§
.25§ .15§ .17§ .17§
-.07§ -.03 -.03† -.06‡
-.17§ -.12§ -.14§ -.13§
.19§ .14§ .14§ .16§
.02 .06‡ .05‡ .07§
-.33§ -.29§ -.31§ -.38§
-.31§ -.29§ -.30§ -.45§
1
-.44§ 1
-.24§ .29§ 1
-.36§ .37§ .47§ 1
.09§ -.02 -.08§ .00 1
.25§ -.22§ -.58§ -.33§ .25§ 1
-.16§ .17§ .40§ .33§ -.04† -.34§ 1
.03 -.02 .09§ .05‡ -.00 -.05‡ .01
.23§ -.20§ -.19§ -.27§ .05‡ .15§ -.21§
.21§ -.22§ -.20§ -.28§ .06§ .18§ -.23§
1
-.02
-.45§
1
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