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Direct linkYourell, 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
Oghogho, Etinosa Sharon; Bland, Helen W. – College Student Journal, 2021
Obesity rates among children and young adults are considered one of the most consequential global public health challenges of the 21st century (Hurt et al., 2010; WHO, 2016). Obesity comorbidities include propensity of low self-esteem (Franklin et al, 2006). Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), a triangulation mixed-methods,…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Body Composition, Obesity, Middle School Students
Abdollahi, Abbas; Abu Talib, Mansor; Reza Vakili Mobarakeh, Mohammad; Momtaz, Vahid; Kavian Mobarake, Roya – Child Care in Practice, 2016
The prevalence of social anxiety during adolescence is high, and it is necessary that we increase our knowledge on the related factors that contribute to social anxiety. The present study sought to examine the relationships among self-esteem, body-esteem, and social anxiety among adolescent students, as well as to examine the mediating role of…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Anxiety Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Self Concept
Fitzpatrick, Kevin M.; Willis, Don; O'Connor, Gail – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
Obesity continues to plague U.S. school-age populations. A number of individual/structural circumstances have been identified as increasing the risk of poor health among children. The article's aim is to examine some of these circumstances and their relationship to students being overweight/obese, while highlighting resource variables as potential…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Obesity, Regression (Statistics), Body Weight
Miyairi, Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to implement a weight-related teasing prevention program and evaluate the effectiveness of the program among adolescents. One hundred forty-three students in 7th-grade in health classes at the middle school were asked to participate in the study. The weight-related teasing prevention program was implemented as part of…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Obesity, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
