22. MARIA SIMLETT ♀
Information acquired: 2025
MARIA SIMLETT is an academic who published a paper in 2004 entitled Relationship between feeling fat and inhibited emotional expression in women. MARIA SIMLETT published this work as part of a team: Simlett, Maria. Here is a description of this work: Feeling fat, regardless of one's actual size and shape, is an experience that is commonplace among females in our society, and one that can have detrimental effects on their health and well being. Despite this fact, very little research has been conducted that examines women's experience of feeling fat. Clinical literature has suggested that feeling fat may be a result of females transposing emotions that they do not recognize or express onto their bodies; however, there is no empirical data to date that supports this hypothesis. In the present study, relationships between feeling fat and inhibited emotional expression were explored in 143 women between the ages of 20-59 years. The participants completed 4 measures of feeling fat (frequency per day and per week, intensity, and degree) and 3 measures of inhibited emotional expression (silencing the.