@article{ref1,
title="Being bullied and feeling ashamed: implications for eating psychopathology and depression in adolescent girls",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="2015",
author="Duarte, Cristiana and Pinto-Gouveia, José and Rodrigues, Tânia",
volume="44",
number="",
pages="259-268",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.08.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.08.005"
}