Figure 1.

Parents' perceptions of the most common reason that youth are teased or bullied. Original questionnaire item was: “In your opinion, why are children most often called names, teased, or bullied?”, with response options as shown in the graph; bars in the graphs appear in descending order; OW/OB is overweight or obese, based on parents' self-report about height and weight of their children and subsequent classification based on BMI-for-age z-scores; weight status of children based on the CDC classification; using parent's perceived weight status of their children revealed that 65% of parents who perceived their child(ren) as either overweight or obese reported “being overweight” as the most important reason for bullying; N=918.