ArticleChild: care, health and development2013
Body esteem, peer difficulties and perceptions of physical health in overweight and obese urban children aged 5 to 7 years.
Article in Child: care, health and development, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00528164 (Treating Childhood Obesity With Family Lifestyle Change), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Treating Childhood Obesity With Family Lifestyle Change
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Beyond the positive glow: how school climate inadvertently challenges mental health by modifying the relationship between BMI and depression in adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Family Socioeconomic Status, Cortisol, and Physical Health in Early Childhood: The Role of Advantageous Neighborhood Characteristics.Psychosomatic medicine · 2018Article
- Associations of Anthropometric, Behavioral, and Social Factors on Level of Body Esteem in Peripubertal Girls.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2017Article
- The Social and Emotional Lives of Overweight, Obese, and Severely Obese Children.Child development · 2016Article
- Body weight has no impact on self-esteem of minority children living in inner city, low-income neighborhoods: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2014Article
- Socioeconomic Adversity, Negativity in the Parent Child-Relationship, and Physiological Reactivity: An Examination of Pathways and Interactive Processes Affecting Young Children's Physical Health.Psychosomatic medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether there is an association between body mass index (BMI) and body esteem in young overweight and obese urban children, and to test peer relationship difficulties and perceived physical health as mediators of this relationship.
methodsChild self-reported body esteem, and parent-reported child peer relationship difficulties (being bullied by peers and peer rejection) and physical health perceptions were obtained from 218 overweight and obese children aged 5-7 years (81% racial/ethnic minority, M BMI = 25.3) and their primary caregivers.
resultsHigher BMI was associated with lower body esteem for both girls and boys. This relation was mediated by poor physical health for boys but not for girls. Peer relationship difficulties did not mediate the observed association between BMI and body esteem in either group; however, girls with higher BMI experienced more bullying and being bullied by peers was associated with lower body esteem in girls.
conclusionsIntervening with perceptions of physical health may buffer overweight and obese boys from developing low body esteem in early childhood.
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