Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences that Make a Difference

Parker, Sheila Hill; Nichter, Mimi; Nichter, Mark; Vuckovic, Nancy; Sims, Colette Marie; Ritenbaugh, Cheryl

doi:10.17730/humo.54.2.06h663745q650450

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“…8 African American women are also more likely to be above recommended body weight, but less likely to perceive themselves to be overweight. 9 In 1992, 44% of African American women were b 120% of recommended weight-for-height, compared to 26% of US adults.…”

Section: Race Obesity and Ideal Body Typementioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, African American young women experience satisfaction with their body shape and, perhaps as a result, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are thought to be less prevalent among young African American women than among young white women. 8,12 On the other hand, obesity is associated with a variety of medical problems; in fact, obesity is de®ned by the associated mortality risk. 13 For women, health risks include cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, diabetes and breast, uterine and cervical cancers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Examining racial variation provides insights into the processes that produce social and economic consequences of obesity. Since crosscultural differences in norms pertaining to ideal body type have been reported, 7,8 differences in the economic effects of obesity suggest that social or cultural norms have economic consequences.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Black-white differences in social and economic consequences of obesity

1999

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate social and economic effects of obesity for black and white females, and to explore possible explanations for race differences in obesity effects. SUBJECTS: 1354 non-Hispanic black and 3097 non-Hispanic, non-black, women aged 25 ± 33 y in 1990 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 ± 1990. MEASUREMENTS: Body mass index (BMI) evaluated at age 17 ± 24 y (1982) and 25 ± 33 y (1990). METHODS: Logistic and linear regression of six labour market and marriage outcomes on early or attained BMI. Detailed controls for family socioeconomic background. RESULTS: Socioeconomic effects of obesity appear larger for whites than blacks. Obesity is associated with low selfesteem among whites, but not blacks. Differences in self-esteem do not account for race differences in the effects of obesity on socioeconomic status. Lower probability of marriage and lower earnings of husbands among those who marry account for the majority of the income differences between obese white women and those of recommended weight. Occupational differences account for more than one ®fth of the effect of obesity on the hourly wages of both white and black women. CONCLUSION: Cultural differences may protect black women from the self-esteem loss associated with obesity for whites. However, differences in self-esteem do not account for the effects of obesity on socioeconomic status. Because the effect of obesity on the economic status of white women works primarily through marriage, it may therefore be less amenable to policy intervention to improve the labor market prospects of obese women.

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Section: Race Obesity and Ideal Body Typementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Race Obesity and Ideal Body Typementioning

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Black-white differences in social and economic consequences of obesity

1999

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“…Eating disorders are most common in young white women, whereas they are less common in black women (Abrams, Allen, & Gray, 1993;Akan & Grilo, 1995;Rucker & Cash, 1992;Molloy & Herzberger, 1998;Parker et al, 1995). Research suggests that cultural loyalty and strong ethnic identity protects black women from the thin ideal standards of American culture (Parker et al, 1995;Molloy & Herzberger, 1998).…”

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Body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating in black and white women

Perez

Joiner

2003

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective: This study predicted and found that body image dissatisfaction and bulimic symptoms have a curvilinear relationship among undergraduate women. Results: For the women in this sample, regardless of race, body image dissatisfaction correlated with bulimic symptoms, such that women who perceived themselves as bigger or smaller than the ideal body size for their ethnic group endorsed bulimic symptoms. Black and white women differed regarding their ethnic group's ideal body image and their self-perceptions of how they compared with the ideal image. Black women tended to report being underweight, whereas white women tended to report being overweight. Discussion: The findings in this study suggest that some black women are not buffered against eating disorders as suggested in previous research.

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“…Além disso, sua proposição para reduzir a incidência de anorexia na contemporaneidade implica dar às mulheres um sentido de valor ao seu próprio sexo e suporte às "suas aspirações específicas e sua criatividade feminina em geral"(269), dando a entender que esse jejum autodestrutivo está relacionado à sua subordinação. em cada cem de meninas de curso médio e universitárias (Brumberg:280;Emmons, 1992;Hsu, 1987;Parker et alii, 1995). Foi sugerido que as negras granjeiam mais respeito que as brancas dentro da família e da comunidade e que o controle das trocas de comida é fonte importante de seu poder (Stack, 1974;Styles, 1980).…”

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Uma visão antropológica do prodigioso jejum de mulheres ocidentais

Counihan

2012

Cad. Pagu

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ResumoNo prodigioso jejum, às vezes até a morte, mulheres ocidentais expressaram uma relação específica com a comida durante quase oito séculos. Este ensaio tenta explicar esse comportamento entretecendo os finos e fascinantes dados históricos apresentados nos três livros resenhados -Holy Anorexia (BELL, 1985); Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (BRUMBERG, 1988) e Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (BYNUM, 1987) -vendo-os a partir de perspectivas interculturais e totalizantes fundamentais para a antropologia. Pretendo mostrar que o jejum de mulheres ocidentais difere radicalmente de outros tipos de jejum observados por antropólogos ao redor do globo e que envolve uma alteração altamente simbólica da relação universal das mulheres com a comida. Argumento que ela pode ser mais bem compreendida como um comportamento pluri-determinado, uma combinação de fatores ideológicos, econômicos, políticos e sociais.

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Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences that Make a Difference

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Black-white differences in social and economic consequences of obesity

Black-white differences in social and economic consequences of obesity

Body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating in black and white women

Uma visão antropológica do prodigioso jejum de mulheres ocidentais

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