Zhao Qi, Li Weidong, Rukavina Paul B
Department of Wushu, Nanjing Sport Institute, Linggusi Road No. 8, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 21004, China.
Department of Human Sciences, College of Education & Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, PAES Building A270, 305 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1224.
J Sch Health. 2017 Oct;87(10):776-783. doi: 10.1111/josh.12551.
Parental support can protect adolescents from various forms of bullying. There is a lack of in-depth information about what social support parents provide to overweight adolescents when they are teased at school. In this study, we took an initial step to address this gap in the literature by describing the types and nature of support that parents provided to their overweight child when they were teased.
A conversational style semistructured interview/prompts and probes were conducted with 28 volunteering parents. Inductive content analysis was used to analyze the data. Data trustworthiness was established through a variety of strategies.
Six themes emerged from the data: (1) having conversations, being encouraging, and "being supportive"; (2) using religion to teach self-acceptance and comfort their child; (3) offering advice on how to cope with the teasing; (4) fostering their child's self-esteem; (5) teaching reality and acceptance of criticism in early life; and (6) seeking support from other parents or professionals.
Parents offered multiple supports for their child when they were teased. This information can facilitate the development of effective family-based interventions on coping with teasing among overweight students. Future research is also needed to examine the effectiveness of the recommended interventions.
父母的支持可以保护青少年免受各种形式的欺凌。对于超重青少年在学校被取笑时父母提供何种社会支持，目前缺乏深入的信息。在本研究中，我们通过描述父母在超重孩子被取笑时提供的支持类型和性质，初步填补了这一文献空白。
对28位志愿参与的家长进行了对话式半结构化访谈/提示和追问。采用归纳式内容分析法对数据进行分析。通过多种策略建立数据可信度。
数据中出现了六个主题：（1）进行交谈、给予鼓励和“给予支持”；（2）利用宗教教导自我接纳并安慰孩子；（3）提供应对取笑的建议；（4）培养孩子的自尊；（5）在早期生活中教导面对现实和接受批评；（6）向其他家长或专业人士寻求支持。
当孩子被取笑时，父母为其提供了多种支持。这些信息有助于制定有效的基于家庭的干预措施，以应对超重学生被取笑的问题。未来还需要研究推荐干预措施的有效性。
