Are Feminine Body Weight Norms Different for Black Students or in Black Schools? Girls’ Weight-Related Peer Acceptance across Racialized School Contexts
| Autor: | Tori Thomas, Molly A. Martin, Gary J. Adler, Derek A. Kreager |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Longitudinal study
Adolescent Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject education 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight Body weight Article Peer Group White People Developmental psychology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Consistency (negotiation) Body Image Ethnicity medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Obesity Child Students media_common Schools 030505 public health White (horse) Body Weight Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Hispanic or Latino medicine.disease humanities United States Test (assessment) Black or African American Friendship Female medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | J Health Soc Behav |
| ISSN: | 2150-6000 0022-1465 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022146520920599 |
| Popis: | Adolescent girls with overweight or obesity are less socially integrated than their thinner peers. We examine racial-ethnic differences in girls’ weight-related friendship patterns, especially noting Black–white distinctions given their different norms about the ideal feminine form. We also test whether schools with more Black students see diminished weight-related differences in peer integration for all girls and/or for Black girls. Using 1994–1995 data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we predict the number of friendship nominations girls receive conditional on their weight status, race-ethnicity, and school’s racial composition. Both white and Black girls with overweight or obesity are less integrated than their thinner peers regardless of the school’s Black enrollment rate. Hispanic girls with overweight are more integrated than white girls with overweight, particularly in schools with low Black enrollments. The relative consistency of girls’ weight-related friendship patterns demonstrates the ubiquity of dominant feminine thinness norms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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