Weight status, body image and bullying among adolescents in the Seychelles

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1763-1774

  Wilson, Michael L ^a   Viswanathan, Bharathi ^b   Rousson, Valentin ^c   Bovet, Pascal ^b,c  

^a PeerCorps Trust Fund   (Tanzania)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Seychelles)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bullying; Epidemiology; Obesity; Overweight; School health; Sub saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULLYING; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OVERWEIGHT; SEYCHELLES;

SEYCHELLES; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULLYING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SEYCHELLES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THINNESS;

EID: 84877604698     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10051763     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Russell-Mayhew, S.; McVey, G.; Bardick, A.; Ireland, A. Mental health, wellness, and childhood overweight/obesity. J. Obes. 2012, 2012, 281801, doi: 10.1155/2012/281801.
2. Mikolajczyk, R.T.; Iannotti, R.J.; Farhat, T.; Thomas, V. Ethnic differences in perceptions of body satisfaction and body appearance among U.S. schoolchildren: A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2012, 12, 425, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-425.
3. Ortega, R.; Elipe, P.; Mora-Merchán, J.A.; Genta, M.L.; Brighi, A.; Guarini, A.; Smith, P.K.; Thompson, F.; Tippett, N. The emotional impact of bullying and cyberbullying on victims: A European cross-national study. Aggress. Behav. 2012, 38, 342-356.
4. Craig, W.; Harel-Fisch, Y.; Fogel-Grinvald, H.; Dostaler, S.; Hetland, J.; Simons-Morton, B.; Molcho, M.; De Mato, M.G.; Overpeck, M.; Due, P.; Pickett, W. A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries. Int. J. Public Health 2009, 54, 216-224.
5. Erermis, S.; Cetin, N.; Tamar, M.; Bukusoglu, N.; Akdeniz, F.; Goksen, D. Is obesity a risk factor for psychopathology among adolescents? Pediatr. Int. 2004, 46, 296-301.
6. Danielsen, Y.S.; Stormark, K.M.; Nordhus, I.H.; Mæhle, M.; Sand, L.; Ekornås, B.; Pallesen, S. Factors associated with low self-esteem in children with overweight. Obes. Facts 2012, 5, 722-733.
7. Stang, J.; Story, M. Body image and adolescents. In Guidelines for Adolescent Nutrition Services; Center for Leadership, Education and Training in Maternal and Child Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2005.
8. Peltzer, K.; Pengpid, S. Overweight and obesity and associated factors among school-aged adolescents in Ghana and Uganda. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8, 3859-3870.
9. Pearce, M.J.; Boergers, J.; Prinstein, M.J. Adolescent obesity, overt and relational peer victimization, and romantic relationships. Obes. Res. 2002, 10, 386-393.
10. Brixval, C.S.; Rayce, S.L.B.; Rasmussen, M.; Holstein, B.E.; Due, P. Overweight, body image and bullying-An epidemiological study of 11- to 15-years olds. Eur. J. Public Health 2012, 22, 126-130.
11. Fox, C.L.; Farrow, C.V. Global and physical self-esteem and body dissatisfaction as mediators of the relationship between weight status and being a victim of bullying. J. Adolesc. 2009, 32, 1287-1301.
12. Thompson, J.K.; Stice, E. Thin-ideal internalization: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 2001, 10, 181-183.
13. Bovet, P.; Chiolero, A.; Madeleine, G.; Gabriel, A.; Stettler, N. Marked increase in the prevalence of obesity in children of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country, between 1998 and 2004. Int J. Pediatr. Obes. 2006, 1, 120-128.
14. Chiolero, A.; Paradis, G.; Madeleine, G.; Hanley, J.A.; Paccaud, F.; Bovet, P. Discordant secular trends in elevated blood pressure and obesity in children and adolescents in a rapidly developing country. Circulation 2009, 119, 558-565.
15. CDC Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS). Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/GSHS/ (accessed 10 April 2012).
16. Alwan, H.; Viswanathan, B.; Rousson, V.; Paccaud, F.; Bovet, P. Association between substance use and psychosocial characteristics among adolescents of the Seychelles. BMC Pediatr. 2011, 11, 85, doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-85.
17. Wilson, M.L.; Dunlavy, A.C.; Bharathi, V.; Bovet, P. Suicidal expression among school-attending adolescents in a middle-income sub-saharan country. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2012, 9, 4122-4134.
18. Cole, T.J.; Bellizzi, M.C.; Flegal, K.M.; Dietz, W.H. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: International survey. BMJ 2000, 320, 1240-1243.
19. Cole, T.J.; Flegal, K.M.; Nicholls, D.; Jackson, A.A. Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: International survey. BMJ 2007, 335, 194-197.
20. Bovet, P.; Kizirian, N.; Madeleine, G.; Blössner, M.; Chiolero, A. Prevalence of thinness in children and adolescents in the Seychelles: comparison of two international growth references. Nutr. J. 2011, 10, 65, doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-10-65.
21. Owusu, A.; Hart, P.; Oliver, B.; Kang, M. The association between bullying and psychological health among senior high school students in Ghana, West Africa. J. Sch. Health 2011, 81, 231-238.
22. Wilson, M.L.; Bovet, P.; Viswanathan, B.; Suris, J.-C. Bullying Among adolescents in a sub-saharan middle-income setting. J. Adolesc. Health 2012, 51, 96-98.
23. Eslea, M.; Rees, J. At what age are children most likely to be bullied at school? Aggress. Behav. 2001, 27, 419-429.
24. Smith, P.K.; Madsen, K.C.; Moody, J.C. What causes the age decline in reports of being bullied at school? Towards a developmental analysis of risks of being bullied. Educ. Res. 1999, 41, 267-285.
25. Rodkin, P.C.; Berger, C. Who bullies whom? Social status asymmetries by victim gender. Int. J. Behav. Dev. 2008, 32, 473-485.
26. Griffiths, L.J.; Wolke, D.; Page, A.S.; Horwood, J.P. Obesity and bullying: Different effects for boys and girls. Arch. Dis. Child 2006, 91, 121-125.
27. Alwan, H.; Viswanathan, B.; Paccaud, F.; Bovet, P. Is accurate perception of body image associated with appropriate weight-control behavior among adolescents of the Seychelles. J. Obes. 2011, 2011, 817242, doi: 10.1155/2011/817242.
28. McCabe, M.P.; Ricciardelli, L.A. Parent, peer, and media influences on body image and strategies to both increase and decrease body size among adolescent boys and girls. Adolescence 2001, 36, 225-240.
29. Richter, M.; Moor, I.; Van Lenthe, F.J. Explaining socioeconomic differences in adolescent self-rated health: the contribution of material, psychosocial and behavioural factors. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2012, 66, 691-697.
30. Nansel, T.R.; Overpeck, M.; Pilla, R.S.; Ruan, W.J.; Simons-Morton, B.; Scheidt, P. Bullying behaviors among US youth: Prevalence and association with psychosocial adjustment. JAMA 2001, 285, 2094-2100.
31. Ricciardelli, L.A.; McCabe, M.P.; Williams, R.J.; Thompson, J.K. The role of ethnicity and culture in body image and disordered eating among males. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 2007, 27, 582-606.
32. Forbes, G.B.; Doroszewicz, K.; Card, K.; Adams-Curtis, L. Association of the thin body ideal, ambivalent sexism, and self-esteem with body acceptance and the preferred body size of college women in Poland and the United States. Sex Roles 2004, 50, 331-345.
33. Dawson-Andoh, N.A.; Gray, J.J.; Soto, J.A.; Parker, S. Body shape and size depictions of African American women in JET magazine, 1953-2006. Body Image 2011, 8, 86-89.
34. Mciza, Z.; Goedecke, J.H.; Steyn, N.P.; Charlton, K.; Puoane, T.; Meltzer, S.; Levitt, N.S.; Lambert, E.V. Development and validation of instruments measuring body image and body weight dissatisfaction in South African mothers and their daughters. Public Health Nutr. 2005, 8, 509-519.
35. Ogbu, J.U. African bridewealth and women's status. Amer. Ethnologist 1978, 5, 241-262.
36. Rguibi, M.; Belahsen, R. Fattening practices among Moroccan Saharawi women. East. Mediterr. Health J. 2006, 12, 619-624.
37. Renzaho, A.M. Fat, rich and beautiful: changing socio-cultural paradigms associated with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa. Health Place 2004, 10, 105-113.
38. Fekkes, M.; Pijpers, F.I.M.; Fredriks, A.M.; Vogels, T.; Verloove-Vanhorick, S.P. Do bullied children get ill, or do ill children get bullied? A prospective cohort study on the relationship between bullying and health-related symptoms. Pediatrics 2006, 117, 1568-1574.