The Effect of Overweight and Bully on Adolescent Academic Achievement in Taiwan: A Multilevel Approach
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Lo, Chieh-En
Abstract
Background: The prevalence of worldwide overweight and obesity has exploded from past 30 years. It’s also getting worse in Taiwan. Many research has proved that overweight or obese adolescents face lots of medical problems rather than it’s socio-economic barrier. More and more studies has found that overweight or obesity would affect the academic achievement of adolescents but only some of them consider the important role of overweight bully and none of them adopt hierarchical linear modeling. Objectives: Find the effect of overweight bully to the academic achievement of high school students in Taiwan. Methods: This study’s database is from Taiwan Education Panel Survey. We use the children and adolescents BMI classification standard from Health Promotion Administration Ministry of Health and Welfare. We define both boys and girls as non-overweight and bully experience, non-overweight but bully experience, non-bully experience but overweight, and overweight and bully experience, controlling gender, program, interpersonal relation and mental status. Trying to find whether overweight-bully would affect the academic achievement of high school students in Taiwan. Result: There are 17266 high school students in our study with 8650 boys and 8616 girls. In univariate analysis, overweight-bully and all control variables are significant with academic achievement. One the other hand, Multilevel Analysis shows that boys with non-overweight but bully experience has poor academic achievement compare to those with non-overweight and bully experience. Girls with overweight and bully experience has poor academic achievement compare to those with non-overweight and bully experience. Students’ academic achievement is also diverse among different schools. Conclusion: The academic achievement of high school girls are affected by overweight-bully while boys are affected by bully. Academic achievement is really different between public and private schools and between urban and suburban schools. From this point of view, health and welfare organizations must pay more attention in overweight adolescents. Education organizations have to find the way to solve the problem of educational inequality.
Subjects
Overweight high school students
bully
school characteristic
academic achievement
multilevel analysis
Type
thesis
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