Table 3.
Rates of weight-based teasing by BMI category
| Weight teasing by family | Weight teasing by peers | Weight teasing by both family and peers | Frequency of peer weight teasing | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | (range 0–4) | ||||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | M | SD | |
| Underweight (n = 418) | 235 | 55.7 | 187 | 44.3 | 270 | 64.0 | 152 | 36.0 | 196 | 46.4 | 226 | 53.6 | 1.33 | 1.26 |
| Healthy weight (n = 5,661) | 2733 | 47.5 | 3021 | 52.5 | 2264 | 39.3 | 3490 | 60.7 | 1505 | 26.2 | 4249 | 73.8 | 0.79 | 1.02 |
| Overweight (n = 1,695) | 1083 | 62.8 | 641 | 37.2 | 931 | 54.0 | 793 | 46.0 | 688 | 39.9 | 1036 | 60.1 | 1.30 | 1.18 |
| Obesity (n = 1,905) | 1395 | 72.0 | 543 | 28.0 | 1495 | 77.1 | 443 | 22.9 | 1148 | 59.2 | 790 | 40.8 | 1.98 | 1.25 |
Note. “Yes” refers to the number of adolescents reporting that they experienced weight-based teasing. Frequency of weight-based teasing from peers included the following response options: 0 (never), 1 (rarely), 2 (sometimes), 3 (often) and 4 (very often), with higher scores indicating greater frequency.