PMID- 12944011
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040105
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1054-139X (Print)
IS  - 1054-139X (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 3
DP  - 2003 Sep
TI  - Weight perception and psychological factors in Chinese adolescents.
PG  - 202-10
AB  - PURPOSE: To investigate the pattern of weight perception and its relationship 
      with psychological distress among Chinese adolescents. METHODS: A sub-cohort of 
      2179 healthy Chinese adolescents randomly selected from schools in Wuhan, China, 
      including 1156 boys and 1023 girls 11 to 15 years of age was included in the 
      current study. Weight, height, self-perceptions of weight status, depressive 
      psychological symptoms including anxiety, depression, perceived peer isolation, 
      and other constructs were measured by a structured questionnaire. A General 
      Linear Model was used to compare psychological differences between actual and 
      perceived weight groups. RESULTS: Perceived underweight was more likely to occur 
      in boys, whereas perceived overweight was more likely to occur in girls. Compared 
      with objective body weight status defined by the International Obesity Task Force 
      (IOTF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) age- and gender-specific body mass 
      index (BMI) cutoffs, girls were more likely to misperceive themselves as 
      overweight, whereas relatively more boys misclassified their weight status as 
      underweight. After adjusting for age, parents' educational attainment, and urban 
      residence, perceived overweight boys and girls were more likely to experience 
      anxiety and depression than perceived normal and underweight subjects (p <.05). 
      Perceived overweight girls and perceived underweight boys experienced higher peer 
      isolation than other groups (p <.05). Significant differences were not found in 
      social support, school connectedness, trouble with teachers, and family 
      disharmony among different weight-perception groups. CONCLUSIONS: Our results 
      suggested distortion of weight perception was prevalent, and may have detrimental 
      psychological influences in Chinese adolescents.
FAU - Xie, Bin
AU  - Xie B
AD  - Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of 
      Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Alhambra, California 91803, USA. 
      bxie@hsc.usc.edu
FAU - Liu, Chunhong
AU  - Liu C
FAU - Chou, Chih Ping
AU  - Chou CP
FAU - Xia, Jiang
AU  - Xia J
FAU - Spruijt-Metz, Donna
AU  - Spruijt-Metz D
FAU - Gong, Jie
AU  - Gong J
FAU - Li, Yan
AU  - Li Y
FAU - Wang, Hanxiang
AU  - Wang H
FAU - Johnson, C Anderson
AU  - Johnson CA
LA  - eng
GR  - 1 P50 CA84735-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - J Adolesc Health
JT  - The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for 
      Adolescent Medicine
JID - 9102136
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Asian People/*psychology
MH  - *Body Weight
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Self Concept
EDAT- 2003/08/29 05:00
MHDA- 2004/01/06 05:00
CRDT- 2003/08/29 05:00
PHST- 2003/08/29 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/01/06 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/08/29 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S1054139X03000995 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00099-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Adolesc Health. 2003 Sep;33(3):202-10. doi: 10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00099-5.