The impact of obesity on psychological well-being.

By J. Wardle, L. Cooke. Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism, 2005

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Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents (2014, background): “Complications with negligible to small associations include low self-esteem, clinically significant depression (of diagnostic severity, associated with significant distress and/or impairment, or inclusive of serious symptomatology), suicide attempts and full-syndrome eating disorders (69,70,71,72).”
Author's Personal Copy Understanding the relationship between obesity and positive and negative affect: The role of psychosocial mechanisms § (2007, background): “Body dissatisfaction may also contribute to the association between obesity and mood ( Wardle & Cooke, 2005 ), especially because body dissatisfaction is influenced by slights or insensitive comments from strangers or family members (Myers & Rosen, 1999; Schwartz & Brownell, 2004).”
Physical activity and obesity in children (2011, background): “and social health than their normal-weight peers (low self-esteem and self-concept,”