RT Article
T1 Association Between Dietary Patterns and Bullying Among Adolescents in Sao Paulo—Brazil
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 4
SP 299
OP 316
A1 Okada, Letícia Martins
A1 Marques, Emanuele Souza
A1 Levy, Renata Bertazzi
A1 Peres, Maria Fernanda Tourinho
A1 Azeredo, Catarina Machado
A2 Marques, Emanuele Souza
A2 Levy, Renata Bertazzi
A2 Peres, Maria Fernanda Tourinho
A2 Azeredo, Catarina Machado
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1881290956
AB Previous studies have assessed the association between food consumption and bullying perpetration, but most of them have not broadly assessed food consumption, neither the distinction between forms of bullying. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between dietary patterns with bullying roles and its different types of bullying perpetration among adolescents. Data on a representative sample of ninth-grade students (N = 2,163; mean age = 14.8 years) taken from Sao Paulo Project for the social development of children and adolescents (SP-PROSO) were used. The independent variables were healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns obtained by exploratory factor analysis. The dependent variables were bullying role (victim-only, bully-only, bully-victim) and bullying perpetration (any type, social exclusion, psychological/verbal aggression, physical aggression, property destruction, sexual harassment). Multinomial and logistic regression models were performed for the total sample and stratified by sex (only for association with sexual harassment), adjusting for covariates. Adolescents who engaged in a healthy dietary pattern were less likely to be bullies (RR 0.67 [0.49, 0.92]), while adolescents with an unhealthy dietary pattern were more likely to be bully-victims (RR 1.29 [1.12, 1.48]). Unhealthy dietary pattern was associated with any type of bullying perpetration (OR 1.24 [1.12, 1.38]), mainly with sexual harassment and physical aggression. Boys who had an unhealthy dietary pattern were more likely to sexually harass another adolescent (OR 2.10 [1.20, 3.66]). In conclusion, adolescents who had a healthy dietary pattern were less likely to perpetrate bullying. Unhealthy dietary pattern was associated with bullying perpetration, especially with sexual harassment by boys.
K1 Adolescents
K1 Nutrition
K1 Food consumption
K1 Aggression
K1 Bullying
K1 Peer Violence
DO 10.1177/0306624X221095017