Guillaume Wattelez

Biographic Data

ID4323865
NAMEGuillaume Wattelez
GIVEN NAMESGuillaume
FAMILY NAMEWattelez
SIGNATUREWATTELEZ G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Caledonia
ORCID0000-0003-1564-0636
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Health literacy of adolescents’ responses to a workshop focusing on food, nutrition, climate change and digital technology solutions in Oceania

    Open AccessLouisa R Peralta, Rowena Forsyth et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The findings show that students in both schools were less likely to engage in critical, compared with functional and interactive health literacy levels. This is an important consideration for future workshops, as well as curriculum and teacher training in Vanuatu, as Vanuatu (and other PICTs) are more susceptible to the effects of climate change and food sustainability issues.. Without a focus on developing critical health literacy knowledge and …

  • Identités plurielles dans l’École calédonienne

    Séverine Ferrière, Guillaume Wattelez et al.ARTICLEJournal de la Société des…2024

    Depuis 2016, la Nouvelle-Calédonie a forgé son propre projet éducatif et a confié à l’école le rôle de promouvoir la richesse des identités plurielles qui composent sa population pour favoriser un lien social durable. Dans ce contexte, la question de la représentation de soi est centrale. Comment les élèves de 6 à 12 ans se définissent-ils en Nouvelle-Calédonie ? Entre identité personnelle et identité sociale, la construction de soi interroge. De…

  • NeuroStratE

    Open AccessSophie Cherrier, Guillaume Wattelez et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2023

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an educational cognitive neuroscience intervention (NeuroStratE) focusing on teaching the functioning of the brain and practical tools to address the procrastination behavior of 199 students enrolled at university from 2019 to 2021. The evolution of procrastination behavior is measured by specific scales and the planning ability through the Tower of Hanoi test. We compared the change in procrastination b…

  • An examination of procrastination in a multi-ethnic population of adolescents from New Caledonia

    Open AccessStéphane Frayon, Viren Swami et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2023

    Relatively high levels of procrastination were observed in Kanak and Polynesian adolescents, and in girls. These findings, while preliminary, may have important implications for academic attainment in the New Caledonian context

  • Physical Activity in Adolescents Living in Rural and Urban New Caledonia

    Open AccessGuillaume Wattelez, Stéphane Frayon et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Physical activity (PA) is an important factor for the prevention of overweight and obesity, particularly during adolescence. This study focuses on the understudied adolescent population of New Caledonia with the aim to (1) determine the daily PA levels and estimate the sedentary time through out-of-school sitting time; (2) highlight the influence of sociodemographic and environmental factors, and (3) assess the associations of PA and sitting time…

  • Eating well’ in Pacific Islands countries and territories

    Open AccessChristophe Serra-Mallol, Fabrice Wacalie et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021Cited by: 1References: 32

  • Too big or too thin? New Caledonian adolescents' perceptions of overweight and underweight

    Open AccessStéphane Frayon, Guillaume Wattelez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2019

    OBJECTIVES: The first aim was to examine New Caledonian adolescents' views of what constitutes an overweight or underweight person. The second aim was to assess whether an environment with a high prevalence of overweight is associated with different norms of overweight or underweight in this population. METHODS: The Stunkard Figure Rating Scale was used for a sample of 699 pluriethnic adolescents in New Caledonia. Body mass index (BMI) was assess…

  • Misperception of weight status in the pacific

    Open AccessStéphane Frayon, Sophie Cherrier et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    The results of this study suggest that these sociodemographic factors should be taken into account when designing public health policies and health education school programmes in New Caledonia and, more broadly, the Pacific region

  • Nutrition behaviors and sociodemographic factors associated with overweight in the multi-ethnic adolescents of New Caledonia

    Stéphane Frayon, Sophie Cherrier et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017Cited by: 2

    Objectives: New Caledonia is a multi-ethnic French territory in the Pacific, characterized by communities with widely varying nutritional habits. Little is currently known about adolescent food behaviors and habits and their association with overweight. This study therefore determined the sociodemographic factors and food behaviors associated with overweight and underweight in this population, as well as the factors associated with skipping break…

  • Body image, body dissatisfaction and weight status of Pacific adolescents from different ethnic communities

    Stéphane Frayon, Yolande Cavaloc et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2017Cited by: 3References: 1

    Objective(s): The prevalence of adolescent obesity is high among the various ethnic groups native to the Pacific region (European, Melanesian and Polynesian). An important factor of weight gain or loss is body size satisfaction; however, little is known about adolescent body self-perception in the Pacific region. Design: Body dissatisfaction was evaluated using the Stunkard Figure Rating Scale in a sample of 699 adolescents from rural and urban a…