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How is weight stigma related to children's health-related quality of life? A model comparison approach.

Veronica GuardabassiAlberto MirisolaCarlo Tomasetto
Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2017)
The mediation model provided the best fitting and more parsimonious representation of the relations between body weight, stigma experiences, and HRQoL, meaning that an increased likelihood of experiencing weight-based teasing episodes, rather than excess weight per se, is associated with reduced quality of life in middle childhood.
Keyphrases
  • body weight
  • mental health
  • social support
  • body mass index
  • weight loss
  • physical activity
  • mental illness
  • weight gain
  • hiv aids
  • young adults
  • depressive symptoms
  • human immunodeficiency virus