title: Obesity and emotional well-being in adolescents: Roles of body dissatisfaction, loss of control eating, and self-rated health.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Weak or inconsistent association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being in population-based samples has led to efforts to identify mediating variables. This study examined the relative importance of body dissatisfaction (BD), loss of control (LOC) eating, and self-rated health (SRH) in mediating the association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being in a school-based sample of adolescents (boys, n = 437; girls, n = 950).
  
  
  METHODS
  Moderated mediation analysis was employed to assess the relative importance of the putative mediating variables and moderation of mediation effects by sex following the methods suggested by Hayes and coworkers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  BD and SRH, but not LOC eating, were found to mediate the association between obesity and impairment in emotional well-being. Stronger mediation effects were observed for BD than for SRH. None of these results was moderated by sex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings suggest that it may be important to target BD in obesity prevention and treatment programs in order to reduce the adverse impact of excess body weight on young people's emotional well-being.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gall
authors.affiliation: Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van Zutven
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindstrom
authors.affiliation: Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bentley
authors.affiliation: Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Kassandra
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gratwick-Sarll
authors.affiliation: Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Carmel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Vivienne
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.|Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mond
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*