Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT)

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Chapter 77 - Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2025

Patricia Cain ,

Graeme Ditchburn and

Ngaire Donaghue

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter ,

Tracy L. Tylka and

Antoinette M. Landor

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter: Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Tracy L. Tylka: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Antoinette M. Landor: Affiliation:
University of Missouri

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Summary

The 49-item Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT; Cain et al., 2022) is a multidimensional, non-stigmatizing measure of contemporary attitudes towards fatness and fat people, some of which are targeted in stigma reduction research. The FAAT can be administered online or in-person to adults and is free to use. This chapter first discusses the development of the FAAT and then provides evidence of its psychometrics. More specifically, the FAAT has a 9-factor structure within exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses: Empathy (7 items), Activism Orientation (7 items), Size Acceptance (6 items), Attractiveness (5 items), Critical Health (5 items), General Complexity (6 items), Socioeconomic Complexity (3 items), Responsibility (6 items), and Body Acceptance (4 items). Internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity support the use of the FAAT. Next, this chapter provides the FAAT items in their entirety, instructions for administration and scoring, and the item response scale. Logistics of use, such as permissions, copyright, and contact information, are available for readers.

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Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit FAAT fat attitudes fat acceptance fat-positive anti-fat weight stigma “obesity,” items scale development psychometric evidence factor structure reliability validity administration scoring

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Information: Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures , pp. 233 - 235

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009398275.078 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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