“I think I’ll just go and eat worms”: the effect of bullying on self-esteem,. Body image, and eating disordered behaviour
| dc.contributor.author | Blake, C. E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haynes, Caroline Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-15T08:47:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-15T08:47:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Blake, C. E. and Haynes, C. A. (1999). “I think I’ll just go and eat worms”: the effect of bullying on self-esteem,. Body image, and eating disordered behaviour. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 7 (1), 28. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621158 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The link between low self-esteem and eating disorders; and body image and eating disorders, has been well established. In addition, Button, Sonuga-Barke, Davies and Thompson, (1996) suggested that problems at school may also contribute to the development of eating disorders. In the present study the effects of bully on self-esteem , body image and eating disordered behaviour were investigate in a cohort of fifty eight college students aged between sixteen and twenty. Participants completed questionnaire measures of social and global self-esteem, body image distortion, bullying and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Analysis revealed a significant effect for bullying on self-esteem and body image when controlling for gender, and on eating disordered behaviour in females but not in males (P<.01). Individuals who were bulletined had significantly lower self-esteem and significantly higher body image distortion and eating disordered scores than individual who were not bullied. The study highlights the importance of bullying as a possible aetiological factor in the developing of eating disordered behaviour. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | British Psychological Society | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.bps.org.uk/bpslegacy/conf_abstracts | en |
| dc.subject | Bullying | en |
| dc.subject | Body image | en |
| dc.subject | Self-esteem | en |
| dc.subject | Eating disorders | en |
| dc.title | “I think I’ll just go and eat worms”: the effect of bullying on self-esteem,. Body image, and eating disordered behaviour | en |
| dc.type | Meetings and Proceedings | en |
| dc.contributor.department | University of Derby | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the British Psychological Society | en |
| html.description.abstract | The link between low self-esteem and eating disorders; and body image and eating disorders, has been well established. In addition, Button, Sonuga-Barke, Davies and Thompson, (1996) suggested that problems at school may also contribute to the development of eating disorders. In the present study the effects of bully on self-esteem , body image and eating disordered behaviour were investigate in a cohort of fifty eight college students aged between sixteen and twenty. Participants completed questionnaire measures of social and global self-esteem, body image distortion, bullying and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Analysis revealed a significant effect for bullying on self-esteem and body image when controlling for gender, and on eating disordered behaviour in females but not in males (P<.01). Individuals who were bulletined had significantly lower self-esteem and significantly higher body image distortion and eating disordered scores than individual who were not bullied. The study highlights the importance of bullying as a possible aetiological factor in the developing of eating disordered behaviour. |