Gender Norms and Weight Control Behaviors in U.S. Adolescents: A Prospective Cohort Study (1994-2002).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of this article was to determine the relationship between gender norms and weight control behaviors in U.S. adolescents.

Methods

We analyzed prospective cohort data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 9,861), at baseline in 1994-1995 (ages 11-18 years, Wave I), 1-year follow-up (ages 12-19 years, Wave II), and 7-year follow-up (ages 18-26 years, Wave III). The primary exposure variable was a measure of one's gender normativity based on the degree to which males and females behave in ways that are similar to the behaviors of their same-gender peers. The outcome variable was an individual's weight control attempts (trying to lose or gain weight) and behaviors (dieting, fasting/skipping meals, vomiting, or weight-loss pills/la

SUBMITTER: Nagata JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6928570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature