[Obesity and coping in childhood].
The aim of this study was to investigate everyday coping styles in obese children in comparison to healthy controls in dependence of gender. Furthermore, the correlations of eating behavior with coping styles were examined. In addition, groups with highest and lowest extremal scores in eating behavior were compared. Patients (N = 58) aged from 11 to 13 years, who took part in an in-patient education program, were asked to complete the German Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (Hampel et al. 2001) and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire for Children (Franzen u. Florin 1997). Healthy controls were matched by age and gender and were asked to fill out the SVF-KJ. No differences between coping styles of obese children and adolescents and healthy controls were found. In obese children and adolescents, emotional and external eating behavior were positively correlated with maladaptive coping strategies. In comparison to previous findings in chronically ill children, differences in obese children and adolescents and healthy controls on coping styles could not be confirmed in the present study. However, results support that the eating behavior of obese children and adolescents is influenced by coping styles.
Stauber
Tatiana
T
Zentrum für Klinische Psychologie und Rehabilitation der Universität Bremen.
Petermann
Franz
F
Korb
Uwe
U
Bauer
Armin
A
Hampel
Petra
P
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001317:Austria; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006294:Health Resorts; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology