The Protective Effect of Friendship on Peer Rejection in Overweight and Normal Weight Youth

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2009
This study examines youth\'s motivation for food or social rewards after a brief episode of simulated ostracism. The investigators hypothesize that youth who think about a friend after being ostracized will mediate their decision to resort to food, which is typically evidenced in socially isolated overweight youth.
Epistemonikos ID: c6dd5c45f044f2861edc1179c07cf6a7dfd2c495
First added on: May 06, 2024