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Zullig  \nABSTRACT  \nBackground: Previous research has posited that significant relationships exist between health status and psychological measures of health (e.g., self-esteem). Less is known about the relationship between perceived quality of life (e.g., life satisfaction), weight perceptions, and dieting behaviors, particularly among middle school adolescents. Purpose: This study investigated the association between weight perceptions and unhealthful dieting behaviors and overall life satisfaction among middle school students. Methods: Separate models were created for 245 7th and 8th grade males and females using the CDC’s 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). ANOVA analyses and Tukey Honest Significant Difference (HSD) tests compared weight perceptions and dieting behaviors to overall life satisfaction. Results: Females were significantly more likely to report reduced life satisfaction if reporting being overweight, eating less, fasting, or taking diet pills to lose weight (effect sizes 0.96-5.80) (p\u003C.01). Males were significantly more likely to report reduced life satisfaction if reporting being overweight or fasting to lose weight (effect sizes 4.58-4.75) (p\u003C.05). Discussion: Unhealthful weight perceptions and dieting behaviors develop early in adolescence and impact life satisfaction. Translation to Health Education Practice: Comprehensive educational programs for prevention and intervention of weight misperceptions and unhealthful dieting are needed and must acknowledge gender differences.  \nBACKGROUND  \nA struggle to comply with modern social, environmental, and psychological influenceson weight perceptions and dieting behaviors has contributed to an increased prevalence of weight-related health issues.1-4 Societal, peer, and parental pressures to achieve the thin cultural norm can lead to impaired feelings of well-being, unhealthful weight control and food consumption behaviors, and poor body weight perceptions.5 Students in the 4th and 5th grade have been shown tobe particularly vulnerable to parental influences on appearance and weight, especially female students. Through parental modeling of dieting behaviors, comments about their  \nown appearance and their child’s appearance, and enforcement of food choices and eating behaviors, parents may create an environment contributing to body dissatisfaction problems.6-7 As young children age, peers and the media become more influential on appearance as these factors reinforce cultural weight ideals that attribute thinness  \nwith female attractiveness and success.7-9  \nYoung adolescents risk developing disordered eating behaviors because this population is in a transitional period and are learning to adjust to increased independence while attempting to resolve peer, relationship, gender identity, body image, and weight conflicts.5,10,11 During this phase  \nof psychological maturation, stress and anxiety build and adolescents may turn to alcohol consumption, sexual intercourse, and violent behavior to cope with and adapt to changes.11 An early onset of such risky behaviors and the experience of significant life  \nLaura Esch is the assistant to the director of health education in the Department of Student Health Services, Miami University, 102 Student Health Services, Oxford, OH 45056; E-mail: [eschlm@muohio.edu. Keith](eschlm@muohio.edu. Keith) J. Zullig is an associate professor, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506.  \nAmerican Journal of Health Education—November/December 2008, Volume 39, No. 6 345  \nLaura Esch and Keith J. Zullig  \nevents at a young age, like parental illness or disappointed educational expectations, are correlated with premature development of weight dissatisfaction and low self-esteem.12 For example, weight dissatisfaction and low self-esteem impact females as ","cbCaia6HkXWILcde","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia6HkXWILcde","pdf",140632,"English","# Abstract\n# Background\n## Social and family pressures\n## Peer and media influences\n## Adolescent psychological development\n# Study context and evidence referenced","[{\"question\":\"What was the study’s main purpose?\",\"answer\":\"To investigate the association between weight perceptions, unhealthful dieting behaviors, and overall life satisfaction among middle school students.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the study participants modeled and analyzed?\",\"answer\":\"Separate models were created for 245 7th and 8th grade males and females using the CDC 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, followed by ANOVA and Tukey HSD comparisons.\"},{\"question\":\"What dieting behaviors were linked to reduced life satisfaction in females?\",\"answer\":\"Females reporting being overweight, eating less, fasting, or taking diet pills to lose weight showed significantly reduced life satisfaction (p\\u003c.01).\"},{\"question\":\"What differences did the study find between males and females?\",\"answer\":\"Females’ reduced life satisfaction was linked to several dieting-related reports, while males’ reduced life satisfaction was significantly linked to being overweight or fasting to lose weight.\"}]","Middle School Students’Weight Perceptions, Dieting Behaviors, and Life Satisfaction | PDF",1792074151]