Weight-based teasing, body dissatisfaction, and eating restraint: Multilevel investigation among primary schoolchildren.

Findings showed that weight-based teasing may be negatively associated with health and psychological wellbeing not only among children who experience weight-based teasing episodes, but also among other members of a class in which weight-based teasing is more prevalent. Programs to reduce weight-based stigma in middle childhood should consider the classroom as a primary target of intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).