NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peer Victimization, Relational Aggression, Inverse Relation

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1745
• Professor: Alireza Asgharzadeh

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Defined as being targeted by peers aggressively (pushing, shoving, hitting, ignoring, threatening, insulting) For example, in 416 high-school students, pearce, boergers, and prinstein (2002) found that both overweight boys and girls reported elevated levels of overt and relational victimization. Indeed, in a study of 576 middleschool students, faith et al. (2002) found that weight criticism during physical activity was associated with negative attitudes toward sports and reduced levels of physical activity. The stress and anxiety caused by weight-related teasing may also lead to somatic complaints, which overweight children may use as reasons to avoid situations likely to result in further victimization (fekkes, pijpers, & verloove-vanhorick, 2003) No gender difference or no ethnic differences. A modest, inverse relation was identified between the reports of peer victimization and the levels of physical activity. Similarly, significant negative correlations were found between physical activity with both loneliness and depressed mood.