Shared Risk Factors for Overweight and Disordered Eating: An Exploration of Weight Status' Association to Five-Shared Risk Factors Among Jr. High Students
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2012-12-18
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Weight-related concerns can be seen as a spectrum with obesity and eating disorders on either extreme end, both sharing a number of risk factors. This study explored five of these risk factors - body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, dieting, internalization of media ideals and perceived teasing - and their association with weight status among junior high students. Significant group differences were found for body dissatisfaction and dieting behaviours.
Specifically the data demonstrated that both the underweight and normal weight participants had significantly more body satisfaction than those above-normal weight and that the normal weight group reported significantly less dieting behaviours than the above-
normal weight group. Girls were found to also rate more negatively across almost all the risk factors. Further research is needed to understand how to best apply these findings into weight-related programming that promotes psychosocial wellness for children and youth of
all weights.
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Educational Psychology, Social Sciences, Psychology--Social
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Carr, L. (2012). Shared Risk Factors for Overweight and Disordered Eating: An Exploration of Weight Status' Association to Five-Shared Risk Factors Among Jr. High Students (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27772