Body-Shape Perceptions and Body Mass Index of Older African American and European American Women

Schuler, Petra B.; Vinci, Debra M.; Isosaari, Robert M.; Philipp, Steven F.; Todorovich, John R.; Roy, Jane; Evans, Retta R.

doi:10.1007/s10823-008-9061-y

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“…Parker and colleagues (1995) also found that black perceptions of beauty are flexible, and that they go beyond physical characteristics. Accordingly, black women are more likely than white women to assess body image in themselves and others in terms that are much less rigid and more multi-dimensional (Parker et al 1995;Schuler et al 2008). But, the issue of how minority women view their bodies is not straightforward because other factors create differences within the same racial or ethnic group (Calasanti and Slevin 2001).…”

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"If I had lots of money... I'd have a body makeover:" Managing the Aging Body

Slevin

2010

Social Forces

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This article uses a feminist framework to explore embodied aging by analyzing indepth formal interviews with 57 men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Emphasizing intersectionality, I focus on the interpretations and strategies these men and women use to make sense of their aging bodies. Their aging corporeal experiences allow me to examine ageist notions about aging and being old and to explore how this thinking, which valorizes youthfulness, shapes their aging experiences.

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"If I had lots of money... I'd have a body makeover:" Managing the Aging Body

Slevin

2010

Social Forces

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“…These differences are related to how permissive one's social and cultural norms are towards excessive weight gain, with black and Hispanic norms concerning weight and weight gain being more permissive than the corresponding white norms [16–18]. A number of recent studies reported that weight misperceptions were more pronounced among black and Hispanic youths who were more likely to underestimate or under-perceive their clinical weight status [19–21]. …”

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Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index

2012

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This paper investigated weight misperceptions as determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in body mass index (BMI) among adolescent females using data from the National Survey of Youth 1997. Compared to their white counterparts, higher proportions of black and Hispanic adolescent females underperceived their weight status; that is, they misperceived themselves to have lower weight status compared to their clinically defined weight status. Compared to their black counterparts, higher proportions of white and Hispanic adolescent females misperceived themselves to be heavier than their clinical weight status. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis showed that accounting for weight misperceptions, in addition to individual and contextual factors, increased the total explained portion of the black-white female BMI gap from 44.7% to 54.3% but only slightly increased the total explained portion of the Hispanic-white gap from 62.8% to 63.1%. Weight misperceptions explained 13.0% of the black-white female BMI gap and 3.3% of the Hispanic-white female BMI gap. The regression estimates showed that weight underperceptions were important determinants of adolescent female BMI, particularly among black and Hispanic adolescents. Education regarding identification and interpretation of weight status may play an important role to help reduce the incidence and racial disparity of female adolescent obesity.

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“…Similarly, Yates et al (2004) have found that female university students with high BMIs from different racial groups in the United States had higher BID and that BMI was highly correlated with both PBI and BID, but White students wanted to be thinner at a normal BMI while Black students had BID only when BMIs were in the overweight range. Overweight and obese Black U.S. women (Schuler et al, 2008) underestimated their body image more than White and Hispanic women; Saudi Arabian female university students similarly underestimated their body image (Al-Qauhiz, 2010). We hypothesized that the high prevalence of overweight and obesity in young female Kuwaitis would be similarly associated with greater misrepresentation of body image, greater acceptability of a plump body image and less dissatisfaction with overweight and obesity.…”

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Relationship Between Perceived Body Image and Recorded Body Mass Index Among Kuwaiti Female University Students

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Waslien³

2013

Women & Health

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The associations between body image and attitudes toward obesity and thinness and their associations with measured body mass index (BMI) among female students of Kuwait University (n = 137) was examined in 2008. The body image perceptions were assessed using nine female silhouettes figures. The difference between current perceived body image (PBI) and ideal body image (IBI) was used as a measure of body image dissatisfaction (BID). Students tended to have a bigger PBI and smaller IBI than would be expected from their BMI category, leading to high levels of BID in each BMI category. PBI, IBI, BID, RBI were highly correlated with each other, and BMI was significantly correlated with each of them. The coefficients of these associations were not significantly altered in multiple regression analysis by the addition of potential confounding variables, such as age, marital status, physical activity, dieting behavior, parental education, and family size. These results suggest that PBI and a desire to be thinner were strongly related to BID and that thinness is becoming more desired in Kuwaiti society than the plump body image of the past.

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Body-Shape Perceptions and Body Mass Index of Older African American and European American Women

Cited by 32 publications

References 31 publications

"If I had lots of money... I'd have a body makeover:" Managing the Aging Body

"If I had lots of money... I'd have a body makeover:" Managing the Aging Body

Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index

Relationship Between Perceived Body Image and Recorded Body Mass Index Among Kuwaiti Female University Students

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