ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2021
Weight teasing experienced during adolescence and young adulthood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with disordered eating behaviors in an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample.
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- Weight Teasing and Binge Eating Among Adolescents in Shanghai, China: Role of Anxiety and Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Unhealthy weight control behaviors and its determinants among female adolescents in Hawassa city, Sidama region, Ethiopia, 2023: school based study.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Parental teasing and body dissatisfaction in White and South Asian females: An exploratory cross-sectional analysis using moderated mediation.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator of the Association Between Weight-Related Abuse and Disordered Eating.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Perspective: Nutrition Health Disparities Framework: A Model to Advance Health Equity.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of weight gain concern and psychological distress.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Can Family and Parenting Factors Modify the Impact of Weight Stigma on Disordered Eating in Young People? A Population-Based Longitudinal Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
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- How is weight teasing cross-sectionally and longitudinally associated with health behaviors and weight status among ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse young people?The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- Psychiatric comorbidity associated with weight status in 9 to 10 year old children.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study assessed cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between weight teasing and disordered eating in an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of young people and examined these relationships across sociodemographic characteristics.
methodThe EAT 2010-2018 study surveyed adolescents (n = 1,534) in the Minneapolis/St. Paul public schools (mean age = 14.4 years) and 8 years later (mean age = 22.2 years).
resultsWeight teasing was prevalent in adolescence (34.1%) and young adulthood (41.5%). In analyses adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and body mass index, weight teasing was cross-sectionally associated with a higher prevalence of all disordered eating behaviors during both adolescence and young adulthood. For example, 64.5% of young adults who reported being teased about their weight engaged in unhealthy weight control behaviors, compared with 47.9% among those not teased (p < .001). There were fewer observed associations in longitudinal analyses, although weight teasing still predicted prevalent overeating and both prevalent and incident dieting (incident dieting-teased: 48.4% vs. not teased: 38.0%, p = .016). Weight teasing and disordered eating were more prevalent among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) young people and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and the relationship between weight teasing and disordered eating was similar across ethnic/racial, socioeconomic, and gender demographic groups. DISCUSSION: Results indicate that weight teasing is strongly correlated with disordered eating in both adolescence and young adulthood regardless of ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, or gender. Finding suggest that future research and policy interventions should address weight stigma and prioritize the needs of BIPOC young people and young people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
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