{"id":12578,"date":"2017-12-11T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslc.nineplanetsllc.com\/blog\/publication\/prospective-associations-between-peer-teasing-in-childhood-and-young-mens-obesity\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T04:28:00","slug":"prospective-associations-between-peer-teasing-in-childhood-and-young-mens-obesity","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.oslc.org\/es\/blog\/publication\/prospective-associations-between-peer-teasing-in-childhood-and-young-mens-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective associations between peer teasing in childhood and young men&#8217;s obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objective: Being teased and otherwise victimised by peers during childhood increases risk for obesity. However, few prospective studies have considered whether risk extends to adulthood. We tested whether being teased in childhood predicted higher body mass index (BMI) and increased odds of obesity in early adulthood in a community sample of American males.<br \/>\nMethod: Boys (n = 206) were classi\ufb01ed as victims of peer teasing or non-victims (n = 55 and 151, respectively) based on mother, father, and teacher reports at ages 10\u201412 years. BMI was assessed at ages 24 or 32 years for 203 of the participants. Family income, parent and child depressive symptoms, child antisocial behaviour, and childhood BMI were assessed at ages 10\u201413 years and served as control variables. Results: In unadjusted comparisons, childhood victims did not differ signi\ufb01cantly from non-victims on BMI (mean [SD] = 27.49 [4.53] and 26.97 [4.60], respectively) or rates of obesity (42% and 31%, respectively) in early adulthood. In adjusted models, no group differences emerged for BMI ([95% con\ufb01dence interval (CI)] = .02 [\u2212.09 to .13], p = .77) or obesity (odds ratio [95% CI] = 1.58 [.67\u20143.71], p = .30). Conclusions: Peer victimization has been associated with immediate and long-term maladjustment outcomes that are in some cases life threatening. However, our null results do not support that peer victimization signi\ufb01cantly increases long-term risk for obesity, and \ufb01ndings are consistent with two other long-term prospective studies of this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"publication_keyword":[1348,301,408,1349],"research_type":[10],"class_list":["post-12578","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication_keyword-bmi","publication_keyword-body-mass-index","publication_keyword-obesity","publication_keyword-peer-teasing","research_type-basic"],"acf":{"citation":"Kerr, D. 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