RT Journal Article
T1 The relationship between overweight and academic performance, life satisfaction and school life.
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Obesidad
K1 Estudiantes - Psicología
K1 Salud
K1 Acoso moral en la escuela
K1 Educación - Modelos matemáticos
AB We explore the relationship between overweight and adolescents’ academic performance and other non- academic outputs, such as life satisfaction and health status, body image, friendships, sense of belonging to school, being bullied and attitudes towards bullying. For this purpose, we employ data on 15-year-old students from PISA 2018 for nine countries, using regression discontinuity analysis around the body mass index overweight cut-off. Our results show that overweight students do not seem to perform differently compared with normal-weight students, but may be less satisfied with life and their health status, have a poorer body image and a higher likelihood of suffering social isolation and being bullied. Regarding students’ sense of belonging to school, results are quite mixed and depend on the country. Surprisingly, overweight students seem to be less empathic with students who suffer from bullying than normal-weight students, even though they are more likely to be bullied themselves.
PB Elsevier
YR 2021
FD 2021-04-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39341
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39341
LA eng
NO Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo, Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez, The relationship between overweight and academic performance, life satisfaction and school life, Food Policy, Volume 101, 2021, 102077
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/15843
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 10 abr 2026