Obesity and emotional well-being in adolescents: roles of body dissatisfaction, loss of control eating, and self-rated health

Kelly Gall; Kim Van Zutven; Joanna Lindstrom; Caroline Bentley; Kassandra Gratwick-Sarll; Carmel Harrison; Vivienne Lewis; Jonathan Mond

doi:10.1002/oby.21428

Obesity and emotional well-being in adolescents: roles of body dissatisfaction, loss of control eating, and self-rated health

Kelly Gall, Kim Van Zutven, Joanna Lindstrom, Caroline Bentley, Kassandra Gratwick-Sarll, Carmel Harrison, Vivienne Lewis, Jonathan Mond^*

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Abstract

Objective: Weak or inconsistent association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being in population-based samples has led to efforts to identify mediating variables. This study examined the relative importance of body dissatisfaction (BD), loss of control (LOC) eating, and self-rated health (SRH) in mediating the association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being in a school-based sample of adolescents (boys, n = 437; girls, n = 950).

Methods: Moderated mediation analysis was employed to assess the relative importance of the putative mediating variables and moderation of mediation effects by sex following the methods suggested by Hayes and coworkers.

Results: BD and SRH, but not LOC eating, were found to mediate the association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being. Stronger mediation effects were observed for BD than for SRH. None of these results was moderated by sex.

Conclusions The findings suggest that it may be important to target BD in obesity prevention and treatment programs in order to reduce the adverse impact of excess body weight on young people's emotional well-being.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	837-842
Number of pages	6
Journal	Obesity
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21428
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016

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