Influence of body mass index on health complains and life satisfaction.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This research work investigates the influence of children's weight status on well-being and school context in a sample of Spanish adolescences.

Methods

The Spanish records from the 2013-14 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Survey are used, which gathers 9,565 adolescences aged 11, 13 and 15. Studies do not usually address the endogeneity of body mass index when analysing their effect on life satisfaction and health complaints, thus resulting in biased estimates. Considering the endogeneity of body mass index, we use the frequency of alcohol consumption as an instrumental variable in order to obtain consistent estimates of its influence.

Results

The two-stage least squares estimation shows that children's body mass index has a significant negative influe

SUBMITTER: Prieto-Latorre C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894113 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature