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Plummer, Rachel S.; Alter, Zanny; Lee, Rebekka M.; Gordon, Allegra R.; Cory, Hannah; Brion-Meisels, Gretchen; Reiner, Jennifer; Topping, Kimm; Kenney, Erica L. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Schools are crucial for preventing negative health outcomes in youth and are an ideal setting to address weight stigma and poor body image. The current study sought to examine and describe the nature of weight stigma and body image in adolescents, ascertain aspects of the school environment that affect body image, and identify…
Descriptors: Bullying, High School Students, Educational Environment, Self Concept
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Deb Hinchey; Bernice Garnett; Janet Gamble; Lizzy Pope – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: Teaching about nutrition is a crucial component of high school health education, with the potential to shape students' perceptions about food, weight and bodies and improve health outcomes. Weight-inclusive approaches have demonstrated success in improving body acceptance, decreasing dieting behaviors and anti-fat attitudes and improving…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Nutrition Instruction, High School Students, High School Teachers
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Deborah Hinchey; Bernice Raveche Garnett; Janet Gamble; Lizzy Pope – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: The weight-normative approach to nutrition education dominates health education programming across the United States, despite evidence that this paradigm contributes to negative outcomes including weight cycling, bias and stigma, the development of disordered eating behaviors, and weight-based bullying. Methods: This study investigates…
Descriptors: Body Weight, High School Students, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
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Eren, Hande Busra; Caliskan, Gokhan – Physical Educator, 2023
In this study, classifications were made from the data obtained from the Health-Related Physical Fitness Report cards and BMIs of students through data mining methods, artificial neural networks, and decision trees models. Then the classification performances of both models were compared. The body weight and height measurements of the students in…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, High School Students, Report Cards, Body Composition
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Davis, Summer; Zhu, Xihe; Haegele, Justin – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
Purpose: To examine differences in fitness test performance and the attributions made for the performances between high school students of different weight status. Methods: High school students (n = 185) completed the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run and the push-up fitness tests and then completed the modified Causal Dimension…
Descriptors: High School Students, Tests, Test Items, Body Composition
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Becnel, Jennifer N.; Giano, Zachary; Williams, Amanda L.; Merten, Michael J. – Youth & Society, 2022
A growing body of literature suggests that youth with severe obesity are engaging in substance use. The purpose of the present study was to examine profiles of substance use among adolescents with severe obesity and examine how these profiles are associated with depressive symptomology using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Obesity, Substance Abuse, Depression (Psychology)
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Yourell, Jacqlyn L.; Doty, Jennifer L. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Youth with obesity are likely to experience weight-based bullying victimization, and adolescents have the highest obesity rates among children. Factors that protect youth from traditional bullying victimization may protect youth from weight-based bullying victimization: internal assets such as positive identity and social competence,…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Bullying, Social Support Groups, Obesity
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Aleksandra Aleksic Veljkovic; Marija Stojanovic; Nenad Stojiljkovic – South African Journal of Education, 2024
With this study we aimed to investigate the impact of a 12-week manipulative skills exercise programme on the motor proficiency of young individuals with intellectual disabilities. A total of 32 learners diagnosed with mild intellectual disabilities, with an average age of 17.81 ± 1.44 years, were divided into 2 equal-sized groups: a control group…
Descriptors: Exercise, Program Effectiveness, Psychomotor Skills, Mild Intellectual Disability
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Park, So Hyun; Park, Hanjong; Faith, Myles – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
This study examined mediating effects of body weight control behaviors in the relationship between body weight perception and health-related behaviors among 11,458 U.S. adolescents from the 2010 National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey. Parallel multiple mediation analysis was performed for the secondary data analysis. Nearly one…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Self Concept, Health Behavior, Adolescents
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Sameh Hallaq – Education Economics, 2024
The present study investigates the effect of obesity and overweight on children's cognitive abilities and well-being using survey data from West Bank schools. The results show the significant adverse impact of obesity on a child's well-being by raising externalizing (behavioral) problems and increasing the probability of classifying a child with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Weight, Cognitive Ability, Well Being
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Singh, Shipra; Thompson, Carly Jean; Kak, Rahul; Smith, Lauren Nicole; Quainoo, Nadia – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: For youth between the ages of 10 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death, and results in approximately 4600 lives lost each year. Body weight status and bullying is associated with increase mental health disorders. Methods: We analyzed data from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, consisting of 15,506 students in grades…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Self Concept, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication
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Lauren S. Morimoto – Quest, 2024
This paper, based on the Praxis Lecture I delivered at the National Association of Kinesiology in Higher Education Conference in January 2024, articulates how my experiences at a Danish gymnastic folkehøjskole (folk high school) and højskole pedagogy inform my teaching and service. After defining højskole pedagogy, I discuss how I incorporate its…
Descriptors: Kinesiology, Teaching Methods, Praxis, Foreign Countries
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Stamate, Iris Fibia; Aimé, Annie; Gagnon, Cynthia; Villatte, Aude – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This longitudinal study investigates the association between weight- and appearance-related bullying in high school and various dimensions of postsecondary school adaptation. The results showed that, in high school, weight-related bullying is more common than appearance-related bullying. Youth bullied because of weight were at higher risk of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Body Weight, Bullying, Intervention
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Genç, Ayça – International Education Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of wrestling education on some physical and motoric parameters in high school students. 42 volunteer men aged 15-17, who received regular wrestling training, participated in the study. In the study, after all, subjects were divided into 3 groups according to age groups, body weight, height, BMI, claw,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Psychomotor Skills, High School Students, Training
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Demirci, Nevzat; Demirci, Pervin Toptas; Koz, Hakan – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the effects of home confinement as a result of lockdown on physical the activity (physical activity and dietary behaviors), and their determinants, on Turkey high school students (14-18 years). Methods: A total of 490 students (mean age = 16.40 ± 1.75) participated in the study. An online questionnaire consisting of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Dietetics, Nutrition
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