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- Title
Weight Status, Quality of Life, and Self-concept in African American, Hispanic, and White Fifth-grade Children.
- Authors
Wallander, Jan L.; Taylor, Wendell C.; Grunbaum, Jo Anne; Franklin, Frank A.; Harrison, Gail G.; Kelder, Steven H.; Schuster, Mark A.
- Abstract
This study examined the association between weight status and quality of life (QOL) in fifth-grade African American, Hispanic, and white children and the potential mediation of this relationship by self-concept. A sample was recruited from fifth-grade public school students in three sites, of whom 599 were African American (40%), Hispanic (34%), or white (26%). During a home interview, physical and psychosocial QOL and global and body-specific self-concept were measured. Measured height and weight were used to calculate BMI. In this sample, 57% were classified by BMI as not overweight, 17%, overweight, and 26%, obese. Although there was no significant interaction between weight classification and race/ethnicity for QOL, obese children reported significantly lower psychosocial but not physical QOL than those classified as not overweight. There was a significant association between BMI (measured continuously) and psychosocial QOL, but only 2% of the variance was accounted for. Both global self-concept and body dissatisfaction independently mediated significant portions of the association between BMI and psychosocial QOL. Being obese in childhood may have negative psychosocial effects.Obesity (2009) 17 7, 1363–1368. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.668
- Subjects
BODY weight; QUALITY of life; AFRICAN Americans; SELF-perception; STUDENTS; OBESITY
- Publication
Obesity (19307381), 2009, Vol 17, Issue 7, p1363
- ISSN
1930-7381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/oby.2008.668