Peer Victimization in Adolescents With Severe Obesity: The Roles of Self-Worth and Social Support in Associations With Psychosocial Adjustment.

Autor:	Reiter-Purtill, Jennifer, Gowey, Marissa A., Austin, Heather, Smith, Kevin C., Rofey, Dana L., Jenkins, Todd M., Garland, Beth H., Zeller, Meg H., TeenView Study Group and in cooperation with Teen-LABS Consortium
Předmět:	PEER relations OVERWEIGHT teenagers SELF-esteem in adolescence SOCIAL skills in adolescence SOCIAL support PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation in adolescence PSYCHOLOGY MORBID obesity ADAPTABILITY (Personality) BULLYING COMPARATIVE studies RESEARCH methodology MEDICAL cooperation RESEARCH SELF-evaluation SELF-perception SOCIAL adjustment TEENAGERS' conduct of life PSYCHOLOGY of crime victims AFFINITY groups EVALUATION research CROSS-sectional method
Zdroj:	Journal of Pediatric Psychology; 2017, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p272-282, 11p, 1 Diagram, 4 Charts
Abstrakt:	Objective: To examine the associations of peer victimization with internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, social competence, and academic performance in a clinical sample of adolescents with severe obesity, and whether self-worth and social support affect these associations.Methods: Multisite cross-sectional data from 139 adolescents before weight loss surgery ( M age = 16.9; 79.9% female, 66.2% White; M Body Mass Index [BMI] = 51.5 kg/m 2 ) and 83 nonsurgical comparisons ( M age = 16.1; 81.9% female, 54.2% White; M BMI = 46.9 kg/m 2 ) were collected using self-reports with standardized measures.Results: As a group, participants did not report high levels of victimization. Self-worth mediated the effects of victimization on a majority of measures of adjustment, and further analyses provided evidence of the buffering effect of social support for some mediational models.Conclusions: Self-worth and social support are important targets for prevention and intervention for both victimization and poor adjustment in adolescent severe obesity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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