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- Title
The Role of School Contexts in Adolescents' Weight-loss Behaviors and Self-perceptions of Overweight.
- Authors
Mueller, Anna S.
- Abstract
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and multilevel modeling, this study investigates the role high school 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-such as schools-may be particularly important to how individuals incorporate macro-level beliefs or values-such as gendered body ideals-into their own behaviors and self-concepts.
- Subjects
HIGH schools -- Social aspects; WEIGHT loss -- Social aspects; SELF-perception in adolescence; SOCIAL conditions of high school students; BODY weight -- Social aspects; TEENAGER physiology; ADOLESCENT obesity; BODY mass index
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 2015, Vol 85, Issue 4, p532
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/soin.12091