title: Being bullied and feeling ashamed: Implications for eating psychopathology and depression in adolescent girls.
abstract: The current study examined the associations between peer victimization, body image shame, self-criticism, self-reassurance, depressive symptoms and eating psychopathology in 609 female adolescents. Correlational analyses showed that being the victim of bullying was positively associated with body image shame, self-criticism, with low self-reassurance, depressive symptoms and eating psychopathology. A path analysis indicated that victimization experiences were associated with increased depressive symptoms partially through increased levels of body image shame, and a severe form of self-criticism - hated self. Body image shame and hated-self self-criticism fully mediated the association between victimization experiences eating psychopathology. The tested model accounted for a total of 51% of depressive symptoms variance and for 52% of eating psychopathology variance. These findings may have important intervention and prevention implications, by suggesting that bullying experiences fuel body image shame and consequent self-directed hostility and anger, which, in turn, predict increased depressive symptomatology and eating psychopathology in female adolescents.
authors: CINEICC - Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention, Portugal; University of Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: cristianaoduarte@gmail.com.
authors: Cristiana
authors: C
authors: Duarte
authors: CINEICC - Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention, Portugal; University of Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: jpgouveia@fpce.uc.pt.
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Pinto-Gouveia
authors: University of Coimbra, Portugal. Electronic address: tcfrodrigues@gmail.com.
authors: Tânia
authors: T
authors: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D058445:Bullying; D002648:Child; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012752:Shame; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Body shame; Depressive symptoms; Eating psychopathology; Peer victimization; Self-criticism