Childhood Bullying Victimization and Overweight in Young Adulthood: A Cohort Study
| Autor: | Candice L. Odgers, Avshalom Caspi, Louise Arseneault, Andrea Danese, Timothy Matthews, Terrie E. Moffitt, Daniel W. Belsky, Jessie R. Baldwin, Antony Ambler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Child abuse
Male Youth Violence Longitudinal study Poison control Overweight Medical and Health Sciences Developmental psychology 0302 clinical medicine Child Abuse Young adult Child Applied Psychology Crime Victims Violence Research Pediatric Psychiatry 05 social sciences longitudinal study Childhood Injury Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Health Female medicine.symptom Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Cohort study Physical Injury - Accidents and Adverse Effects Adolescent Birth weight early life stress Article 03 medical and health sciences Clinical Research Behavioral and Social Science medicine Humans overweight 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Obesity Nutrition Prevention victimization Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Bullying Body mass index 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Demography Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatic medicine, vol 78, iss 9 Baldwin, J R, Arseneault, L, Odgers, C, Belsky, D W, Matthews, T, Ambler, A P, Caspi, A, Moffitt, T E & Danese, A 2016, ' Childhood Bullying Victimization and Overweight in Young Adulthood : A Cohort Study ', Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 78, no. 9, pp. 1094-1103 . https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000388 |
| Popis: | Objective To test whether bullied children have an elevated risk of being overweight in young adulthood and whether this association is: (1) consistent with a dose-response relationship, namely, its strength increases with the chronicity of victimization; (2) consistent across different measures of overweight; (3) specific to bullying and not explained by co-occurring maltreatment; (4) independent of key potential confounders; and (5) consistent with the temporal sequence of bullying preceding overweight. Method A representative birth cohort of 2,232 children was followed to age 18 years as part of the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study. Childhood bullying victimization was reported by mothers and children during primary school and early secondary school. At the age-18 follow-up, we assessed a categorical measure of overweight, body mass index, and waist-hip ratio. Indicators of overweight were also collected at ages 10 and 12. Co-twin body mass and birth weight were used to index genetic and fetal liability to overweight, respectively. Results Bullied children were more likely to be overweight than non-bullied children at age 18, and this association was (1) strongest in chronically bullied children (odds ratio = 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.21-2.35); (2) consistent across measures of overweight (body mass index: b = 1.12; 95% CI = 0.37-1.87; waist-hip ratio: b = 1.76; 95% CI = 0.84-2.69); (3) specific to bullying and not explained by co-occurring maltreatment; (4) independent of child socioeconomic status, food insecurity, mental health, and cognition, and pubertal development; and (5) not present at the time of bullying victimization, and independent of childhood weight and genetic and fetal liability. Conclusion Childhood bullying victimization predicts overweight in young adulthood. |
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