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28-02-2023 | Empirical Research

Popularity Status Insecurity as a Risk Factor for Adolescents’ Maladaptive Weight-Related Cognitions and Behaviors: Examining a Moderated Mediation Model

Auteurs: Mingqi Li, Yan Li

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 7/2023

Abstract

Previous studies have identified popularity as a risk factor for adolescents’ body image concerns and disordered eating behaviors, yet little is known about how adolescents’ insecure feelings about their popularity status may be associated with these outcomes. To address this gap, this study examined whether popularity status insecurity was linked to weight-related cognitions and behaviors one year later and whether these links were mediated by body dissatisfaction and moderated by popularity status. A total of 233 Chinese 10th and 11th grade adolescents (41% girls; M_age = 15.81 years, SD = 0.68) participated in the study. The results showed that adolescents’ popularity status insecurity was positively and indirectly related to greater future drive for thinness and restrained eating through the mediation of dissatisfied feelings about their own body shape only among those with average and low popularity, and these indirect effects were strengthened as adolescents’ popularity decreased. Implications for prevention and intervention of eating disturbances for adolescents are discussed.

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Titel: Popularity Status Insecurity as a Risk Factor for Adolescents’ Maladaptive Weight-Related Cognitions and Behaviors: Examining a Moderated Mediation Model
Auteurs: Mingqi Li
Yan Li
Publicatiedatum: 28-02-2023
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 7/2023
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01756-z

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