The Role of School Contexts in Adolescents' Weight-Loss Behaviors and Self-Perceptions of Overweight
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and multi-level modeling, this study investigates the role high schools social contexts play in the development of adolescents' weight-loss behaviors and overweight self-perceptions. Overall, the results indicate that there is...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Sociological inquiry. - 1981. - 85(2015), 4 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 532-555 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2015
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Sociological inquiry |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Adolescent obesity Environments Gender Overweight Schools Social contexts Students Weight Perception Weight control |
| Zusammenfassung: | Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and multi-level modeling, this study investigates the role high schools social contexts play in the development of adolescents' weight-loss behaviors and overweight self-perceptions. Overall, the results indicate that there is an important association between adolescents' weight-loss behaviors and self-perceptions of overweight and the weight-related context of their school. For example, both adolescent boys and girls are less likely to engage in weight-loss behaviors when overweight is prevalent among their same-sex schoolmates. However, gender differences are also found. For example, while adolescent boys' self-perceptions of overweight are significantly associated with their same-sex schoolmates' characteristics and behaviors, this is not the case for adolescent girls. Overall, these findings suggest that meso-level social contexts - like schools - may be particularly important to how individuals incorporate macro-level beliefs or values - like gendered body ideals - into their own behaviors and self-concepts |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Revised 20.11.2019 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status Publisher |
| ISSN: | 0038-0245 |