Breakfast skipping is associated with cyberbullying and school bullying victimization:a school-based cross-sectional study

Abstract

Breakfast skipping is a health concern that has well-known negative consequences physically and psychologically. It is therefore important to understand why children skip breakfast. The purpose of this study was to establish whether the experience of bullying and cyberbullying impacts upon breakfast skipping and to further evaluate whether the inability for youths to cope with bullying victimization affects their mental health (depression), and in turn predicts breakfast skipping. Data were obtained from the Eastern Ontario 2011 Youth Risk Behaviour Survey, a cross-sectional regional school-based survey of middle and high school students (11-20 years old) across the five counties of Eastern Ontario, Canada (N = 3035). Self-reported data about children's experiences of bullying victimization, breakfast eating habits, socio-economical status, depression, and other risk behaviours were analysed. Approximately half of the participants (50.4%) reported not eating breakfast on a regular basis: 26.3% and 24.1% reported often (usually eat breakfast three times or more per week) and frequent (usually eat breakfast twice a week or less) breakfast skipping behaviour, respectively. Victims of both cyberbullying and school bullying presented greater likelihood of often (adjusted relative risk ratio (RR) = 1.55; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.17-2.06) and frequent (RR = 1.97; 95% CI = 1.28-3.03) breakfast skipping. Mediation analysis further showed that depression fully mediated the relationship between school bullying victimization and frequent breakfast skipping. Moreover, depression partially mediated the associations between both cyberbullying and school bullying with frequent breakfast skipping. These findings highlight the potential interrelationships between cyberbullying, school bullying and depression in predicting unhealthy breakfast skipping behaviour in children. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.007
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
College of Health & Life Sciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > Chronic and Communicable Conditions
Additional Information: NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Appetite. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Sampasa-Kanyinga, H, Roumeliotis, P, Farrow, CV & Shi, YF, 'Breakfast skipping is associated with cyberbullying and school bullying victimization: a school-based cross-sectional study' Appetite, vol 79 (2014) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.04.007
Uncontrolled Keywords: adolescent,breakfast,bullying,cyber-victimization,cyberbullying,victimization,Nutrition and Dietetics,Psychology(all),Medicine(all)
Publication ISSN: 1095-8304
Last Modified: 10 Jan 2024 08:05
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2014 08:50
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2014-08
Published Online Date: 2014-04-16
Authors: Sampasa-Kanyinga, Hugues
Roumeliotis, Paul
Farrow, Claire V. (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-3745-6610)
Shi, Yuanfeng F.

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