Longitudinal relationship between experience of sexual harassment and 2-year body image and weight outcomes in adolescence: mediation through self-objectification and psychological distress.
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- Eat Weight Disord, 2022, 27, (8), pp. 3095-3108
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- 2022-12
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dc.contributor.author | Hayes, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Lonergan, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Trompeter, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Bussey, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Hay, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Mitchison, D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-05T02:08:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-08 | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-05T02:08:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Eat Weight Disord, 2022, 27, (8), pp. 3095-3108 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1124-4909 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1590-1262 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10453/170209 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: The current study investigated the experience of sexual harassment as a risk factor for weight gain and weight/shape concerns in a community sample of adolescents, with potential mediating factors self-objectification and psychological distress. METHOD: 1034 Australian adolescents (aged 11 to 19 years) from the EveryBODY longitudinal study of disordered eating pathology participated. Data were collected through online surveys annually for 3 years. Participants completed self-report measures of demographics, sexual harassment, psychological distress, self-objectification, weight/shape concerns and BMI percentile. RESULTS: A parallel mediation model adjusting for baseline scores found no direct effect between baseline experiences of sexual harassment and change in BMI percentile or weight/shape concern after 2 years. Experiences of sexual harassment significantly increased self-objectification scores after 1 year in female adolescents. Subsequently, higher self-objectification significantly increased the risk of greater weight/shape concern after 1 year in female adolescents. However, no significant mediating relationship was found in the relationship between sexual harassment and weight/shape concern or BMI percentile for either gender. Psychological distress was found to be a clear risk factor for weight/shape concern in both genders after 1 year. CONCLUSIONS: Intervention programmes in schools should focus on developing policies to reduce sexual harassment, self-objectification and distress in adolescents. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, longitudinal multiple time series without intervention. | |
dc.format | Print-Electronic | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Eat Weight Disord | |
dc.relation.isbasedon | 10.1007/s40519-022-01432-4 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
dc.subject | 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1701 Psychology | |
dc.subject.classification | Clinical Psychology | |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | |
dc.subject.mesh | Male | |
dc.subject.mesh | Female | |
dc.subject.mesh | Adolescent | |
dc.subject.mesh | Body Image | |
dc.subject.mesh | Sexual Harassment | |
dc.subject.mesh | Longitudinal Studies | |
dc.subject.mesh | Australia | |
dc.subject.mesh | Surveys and Questionnaires | |
dc.subject.mesh | Psychological Distress | |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | |
dc.subject.mesh | Longitudinal Studies | |
dc.subject.mesh | Sexual Harassment | |
dc.subject.mesh | Body Image | |
dc.subject.mesh | Adolescent | |
dc.subject.mesh | Australia | |
dc.subject.mesh | Female | |
dc.subject.mesh | Male | |
dc.subject.mesh | Surveys and Questionnaires | |
dc.subject.mesh | Psychological Distress | |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | |
dc.subject.mesh | Male | |
dc.subject.mesh | Female | |
dc.subject.mesh | Adolescent | |
dc.subject.mesh | Body Image | |
dc.subject.mesh | Sexual Harassment | |
dc.subject.mesh | Longitudinal Studies | |
dc.subject.mesh | Australia | |
dc.subject.mesh | Surveys and Questionnaires | |
dc.subject.mesh | Psychological Distress | |
dc.title | Longitudinal relationship between experience of sexual harassment and 2-year body image and weight outcomes in adolescence: mediation through self-objectification and psychological distress. | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
utslib.citation.volume | 27 | |
utslib.location.activity | Germany | |
utslib.for | 1103 Clinical Sciences | |
utslib.for | 1701 Psychology | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Graduate School of Health | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Graduate School of Health/GSH.Clinical Psychology | |
utslib.copyright.status | closed_access | * |
dc.date.updated | 2023-05-05T02:08:06Z | |
pubs.issue | 8 | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.volume | 27 | |
utslib.citation.issue | 8 |
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The current study investigated the experience of sexual harassment as a risk factor for weight gain and weight/shape concerns in a community sample of adolescents, with potential mediating factors self-objectification and psychological distress. METHOD: 1034 Australian adolescents (aged 11 to 19 years) from the EveryBODY longitudinal study of disordered eating pathology participated. Data were collected through online surveys annually for 3 years. Participants completed self-report measures of demographics, sexual harassment, psychological distress, self-objectification, weight/shape concerns and BMI percentile. RESULTS: A parallel mediation model adjusting for baseline scores found no direct effect between baseline experiences of sexual harassment and change in BMI percentile or weight/shape concern after 2 years. Experiences of sexual harassment significantly increased self-objectification scores after 1 year in female adolescents. Subsequently, higher self-objectification significantly increased the risk of greater weight/shape concern after 1 year in female adolescents. However, no significant mediating relationship was found in the relationship between sexual harassment and weight/shape concern or BMI percentile for either gender. Psychological distress was found to be a clear risk factor for weight/shape concern in both genders after 1 year. CONCLUSIONS: Intervention programmes in schools should focus on developing policies to reduce sexual harassment, self-objectification and distress in adolescents. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, longitudinal multiple time series without intervention.
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