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J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2006 Dec;35(4):539-49.
Body dissatisfaction prospectively predicts depressive mood and
low self-esteem in adolescent girls and boys.
Paxton SJ, Neumark-Sztainer D, Hannan PJ, Eisenberg ME.
La Trobe University, School of Psychological Science, Bundoora,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia. susan.paxton@latrobe.edu.au
This research examined whether body dissatisfaction
prospectively predicted depressive mood and low self-esteem in
adolescent girls and boys 5 years later. Participants were
early-adolescent girls (n = 440, Time 1 M age = 12.7 years) and
boys (n = 366, Time 1 M age = 12.8 years) and midadolescent
girls (n = 946, Time 1 M age = 15.8 years) and boys (n = 764,
Time 1 M age = 15.9 years). After controlling for Time 1 of the
relevant dependent variable, ethnicity, socioeconomic status,
and body mass index, Time 1 body dissatisfaction was a unique
predictor of Time 2 depressive mood and low self-esteem in
early-adolescent girls (depressive mood: F = 4.80, p < .05;
self-esteem: F = 9.64, p < .01) and midadolescent boys
(depressive mood: F = 12.27, p < .001; self-esteem: F = 9.38, p
< .01) but not in early-adolescent boys or midadolescent girls.
These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that body
dissatisfaction is a risk factor for depressive mood and low
self-esteem in both girls and boys but in different phases of
adolescence.
   
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