Associations between overweight and obesity with bullying behaviors in school-aged children.

By Ian Janssen, Wendy Craig, W. Boyce, W. Pickett. Pediatrics, 2004

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A review of research on bullying and peer victimization in school: An ecological system analysis☆ (2012, background): “One study conducted in Canadian schools with a representative sample of 5749 boys and girls found that overweight and obese youth were more likely to bully other students than normal weight students (Janssen et al., 2004).”
Body Norms and Fat Stigma in Global Perspective (2011, background): “Based on existing published ethnographies we would predict considerable across-population variation in ideas about fat stigma, including the very low stigma seen in places like American Samoa that are conventionally understood to be relatively fat neutral or positive, compared to places such as the ”
Gender, Obesity, and Education (2007, background): “This feedback may occur directly in social situations, as in the well-documented tendency for young people to bully, isolate, and ostracize overweight peers (Halpern et al. 2005; Janssen et al. 2004; Strauss and Pollack 2003).”
The Peer Appearance Culture During Adolescence: Gender and Body Mass Variations (2006, background): “Overweight and obese adolescent boys and girls are more likely than normal weight individuals to be the victims and perpetrators of bullying than their normalweight peers ( Janssen et al., 2004 ).”