Download or read book The Relationship Among Gender Age Blame and Children s Attributions about an Overweight Peer written by Emily A. Iobst and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that children are often less accepting of their overweight peers as compared to their average weight counterparts (e.g., Brylinsky & Moore, 1994; Cramer & Steinwert, 1998). Blaming one for his/her overweight condition may lead to more negative attributions about that person, according to attribution theory (Weiner, 1986). The current study examined the role of blame in children's attributions about their overweight peers. Further, the current study investigated whether perceiver characteristics, specifically age and gender, were related to children's attributions about their overweight peers, and the extent to which blame mediated these relationships. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to determine whether the seven traits (e.g., being bad, worried, happy, nice) measured in this study were reflective of a single, unidimensional factor rather than separate constructs. Data for two hundred ninety-one children (aged 3- to 11-years-old) were analyzed for this study. Participants were assigned to view a videotape of a same-sex peer dressed to appear overweight. Following the viewing of the videotape, children completed the Child Interview (Lehmkuhl, 2005; Lehmkuhl et al., 2002; Lehmkuhl et al., 2004), which assessed the participants' perceptions of the target child on certain traits, their perceptions about how much the child was to blame for being overweight, and how much they generally accepted the target child. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that six of the seven traits loaded onto a single factor, referred to as "judgment." Blame was significantly and positively associated with judgment, with higher blame scores (low blame) being related to higher judgment scores (more positive judgment). Gender was neither related to blame nor judgment. Results also suggested age level differences in blame and attributions about overweight peers. However, these age level differences depended on which endogenous variable was being examined. Five- to 8-year-olds reported the least amount of blame, and, through mediation, the most accepting views of the model, compared to the other age groups. Young children (aged 3- to 4-years-old) were less accepting compared to the other two age groups, and thus, interventions should focus on this age group to possibly prevent negative opinions in later years. Further, because positivity toward overweight peers did not continue into the 9- to 11-year-old age group, interventions should also be directed at this age group, who might be apt to be less accepting of their overweight peers due to the social concerns and identity formation (Jones & Crawford, 2006; Neumark-Sztainer, Falkner, Story, Perry, Hannan, & Mulert, 2002) during this time in development. Future research should examine the impact of interventions on children's perceptions of fault for peers who are overweight to determine what techniques are related to improved perceptions of peers who are physically different.
Download or read book Relationship Among Weight Status Age Gender and Children s Peer Acceptance written by Heather Lehmkuhl and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children may be less accepting of significantly overweight peers as compared to average weight peers. More information is needed about children's attitudes toward overweight peers. This study examined children's acceptance of models presented as slightly overweight or average weight. This study also examined whether perceiver characteristics, including gender and age, were related to children's acceptance ratings and whether gender moderated the association between age and acceptance ratings. Exploratory analyses examined children's perceptions of negative traits (e.g., being bad) for the overweight and average weight models. Six hundred and twelve children, (aged 3- to 13-years) participated, and were randomly assigned to view a videotape of a same sex model dressed to appear overweight or at an average weight. Then, children completed the Child Interview, which consisted of questions assessing children's acceptance of and perceptions of negative traits for the models. Elementary school-age children participated in small groups and preschool-age children participated in individual interviews. Children rated the believability of the overweight models' costumes. Results indicated that children did not report lower acceptance ratings for the overweight models. Older children provided lower acceptance ratings for the models, irrespective of weight status, than younger children. Gender did not moderate the relationship between age and children's acceptance ratings. Boys reported lower acceptance ratings for the models than girls; but, they provided higher acceptance ratings for the overweight model than for the average weight model. Results of exploratory analyses suggested that adolescents and preschool-age children provided higher negative ratings irrespective of weight status than children in elementary school. Weight status did not predict children's perceptions of negative traits. Boys, compared to girls, reported that the models would fight more often. Overall, results indicated that children in this study did not report poor acceptance of overweight children. This is encouraging because significantly overweight children may be teased because of their weight status and experience emotional distress. Thus, interventions may only be needed for children who are significantly overweight or obese rather than slightly overweight. In the future, researchers should continue to examine children's perceptions of peers who are slightly and moderately overweight, obese, and average weight.
Download or read book Preventing Bullying Through Science Policy and Practice written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have "asked for" this type of treatment, or deserved it. Sometimes, even the child who is bullied begins to internalize this idea. For many years, there has been a general acceptance and collective shrug when it comes to a child or adolescent with greater social capital or power pushing around a child perceived as subordinate. But bullying is not developmentally appropriate; it should not be considered a normal part of the typical social grouping that occurs throughout a child's life. Although bullying behavior endures through generations, the milieu is changing. Historically, bulling has occurred at school, the physical setting in which most of childhood is centered and the primary source for peer group formation. In recent years, however, the physical setting is not the only place bullying is occurring. Technology allows for an entirely new type of digital electronic aggression, cyberbullying, which takes place through chat rooms, instant messaging, social media, and other forms of digital electronic communication. Composition of peer groups, shifting demographics, changing societal norms, and modern technology are contextual factors that must be considered to understand and effectively react to bullying in the United States. Youth are embedded in multiple contexts and each of these contexts interacts with individual characteristics of youth in ways that either exacerbate or attenuate the association between these individual characteristics and bullying perpetration or victimization. Recognizing that bullying behavior is a major public health problem that demands the concerted and coordinated time and attention of parents, educators and school administrators, health care providers, policy makers, families, and others concerned with the care of children, this report evaluates the state of the science on biological and psychosocial consequences of peer victimization and the risk and protective factors that either increase or decrease peer victimization behavior and consequences.
Download or read book Weight Bias written by Kelly D. Brownell and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-08-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrimination based on body shape and size remains commonplace in today's society. This important volume explores the nature, causes, and consequences of weight bias and presents a range of approaches to combat it. Leading psychologists, health professionals, attorneys, and advocates cover such critical topics as the barriers facing obese adults and children in health care, work, and school settings; how to conceptualize and measure weight-related stigmatization; theories on how stigma develops; the impact on self-esteem and health, quite apart from the physiological effects of obesity; and strategies for reducing prejudice and bringing about systemic change.
Download or read book Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children written by Peter G. Kopelman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity is a major problem facing doctors in the 21st century.This third edition of a highly-respected textbook combines thelatest in clinical research with a practical approach to guide thesuccessful evaluation, management and treatment of the obesepatient including the large number of complications and otherconditions that can arise as a consequence of it. Written by experts from around the globe, this book is a trulyinternational work recognizing that the approach for the treatmentand management of obesity may vary between differing ethnicitiesand in different countries. The book addresses obesity and itssocial and cultural aspects, biology, associated diseases, lifestages (pediatric and adult), management, and environmental policyapproaches in six sections. As well as covering the latestapproaches to treatment of obesity, Clinical Obesity in Adultsand Children considers the effects of the environment, ofgender and of culture on this problem. This is an invaluable resource for all health careprofessionals, research scientists and public health practitionersinvolved in the prevention and care of patients who are at risk ofobesity or are already obese.
Download or read book Understanding Eating Disorders written by LeeAnn Alexander Mott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. As the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity sometimes caused by compulsive eating has risen, so has research and literature in the field. Presenting current knowledge of these eating disorders - the most common types found in adolescents and adults - this book addresses issues relevant to all.; Examining the pertinent history, aetiology, psychotherapy, and sociology, the contributors define these eating disorders and discuss issues of recovery and methods of treatment.; They also consider the problem as it exists in both male and females in this multicultural society. The resulting volume is divided into four parts: the first gives an overview in general, and the next three focus individually on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity respectively.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relationships as Developmental Contexts written by W. Andrew Collins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume's topic was chosen in part because of the rapidly growing salience of dyadic research perspectives in developmental psychology, but also in social psychology and in fields such as communication and family studies. It provides the most complete representation now available on current theory and research on the significance of personal relationships in child and adolescent development. This volume addresses the ways in which the study of social development has been altered by an emphasis on research questions and techniques for studying children and adolescents in the context of their significant dyadic relationships. Leading scholars--many of them pioneers in the concepts and methods of dyadic research--have contributed chapters in which they both report findings from recent research and reflect on the implications for developmental psychology. Their work encompasses studies of relationships with parents, siblings, friends, and romantic partners. Opening chapters set the stage by describing the key characteristics of social-development research from a dyadic perspective and outlining key themes and contemporary issues in the field. It concludes with commentaries from distinguished senior scholars identifying important directions for future research.
Download or read book Child and Adolescent Development in Context written by Tara L. Kuther and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chronologically organized Child and Adolescent Development in Context, award-winning author Tara L. Kuther frames development research in real-life contexts, including gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more.
Download or read book The Obesity Epidemic written by Michael Gard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a broad ranging review of current thinking on obesity, the authors criticise much of the existing research for being biased by ideological and moral assumptions.
Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loneliness in Childhood and Adolescence written by Ken J. Rotenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a comprehensive examination of loneliness in childhood and adolescence.
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Download or read book Gender Differences at Puberty written by Chris Hayward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the emergence of gender difference, summarizing the most up-to-date interdisciplinary research.
