Social factors, weight perception, and weight control practices among adolescents in Mexico

Bojórquez, Ietza; Villatoro, Joel; Delgadillo, Marlene; Fleiz, Clara; Fregoso, Diana; Unikel, Claudia

doi:10.1177/1359105316643596

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“…Self-comparison with a thinner ideal may lead to errors in weight perception and increased engagement in weight control practices (WCP), a hypothesis recently tested in a large national survey of adolescents (N = 28,266) in Mexico [10]. This study examined associations between socio-cultural factors and WCP, mediated by weight perception.…”

Section: Weight Perceptionmentioning

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The impact of urbanization on risk for eating disorders

Gorrell

Trainor

Grange

2019

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose: Urbanization has broadly been implicated in negatively impacting mental health, including risk for eating pathology and eating disorders. Understanding the specific mechanisms that contribute to risk for maladaptive eating behavior in the context of urbanization is essential to improving public health policy and guiding future clinical, research, and prevention efforts.Recent Findings: This review of recent investigation related to the impact of urbanization on eating pathology highlights specific risk factors for eating disorders, including acculturation to Western standards of beauty, and food resources with associated body weight and body image concern. Summary:Recommendations for clinical and research endeavors include improved specificity in defining urbanization, as well as increased sensitivity within community-based assessment of cultural and demographic variables that may impact eating behavior and risk for eating disorders.

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Section: Weight Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of urbanization on risk for eating disorders

Gorrell

Trainor

Grange

2019

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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“…Adolescents whose head of household had higher levels of education (socioeconomic status proxy) were more likely to have BID. In Mexico, Bojorquez et al 37 , also noted that students whose mothers had higher education levels were more likely to perceive themselves as having overweight. This perception may be related to an increased likelihood of the individual presenting BID.…”

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Association of body image dissatisfaction with body mass index trajectory: the Adolescent Nutritional Assessment Longitudinal Study cohort

Santana

Cunha

Sichieri

et al. 2020

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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ABSTRACT Objective To examine the association of body image dissatisfaction (BID) with body mass index (BMI) trajectory among students from a metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. Methods Data were analyzed for 809 middle school students followed from 2010 to 2013, and 1131 high school students followed from 2010 to 2012. BID was assessed using a body silhouettes scale. Type of school (public and private) was used as a proxy of socioeconomic status. Results In the middle school cohort, girls from private schools who wanted to have smaller and bigger silhouettes gained fewer BMI units than those who were satisfied with their body image ( p < 0.05). In the high school, girls from private schools who wished to have bigger and smaller silhouettes experienced greater BMI increase than girls who were satisfied with their body image ( p < 0.05). Also, in the high school cohort, boys from public schools who wished to have smaller and bigger silhouettes experienced smaller BMI increase than boys who were satisfied ( p < 0.05). Conclusion BID may be related to the BMI trajectory in girls from private schools and in boys from public schools.

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“…Conversely, children who were overweight or obese but perceived themselves as "all right" and "too (relatively) thin" and those with normal weight who perceived themselves as "relatively (too) thin" were categorized as "underestimated." Children who are (severely) underweight and perceived themselves as "relatively thin" or "too thin, " who were normal weight and perceived themselves as "all right, " and those who were overweight or obese and perceived themselves as "relatively heavy" or "too heavy, " were categorized under "consistent" (25).…”

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Sex-Related Difference in the Association Between Child Neglect and the Accuracy of Body Weight Perception Among Chinese Primary Schoolchildren

Liu

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Introduction: Body weight perception (BWP) directly determines weight management behaviors. Although child neglect is a well-established risk factor for managing body weight, little is known about its association with the accuracy of BWP. This study aimed to assess the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between child neglect and BWP accuracy in primary schoolchildren, and explore how these differ based on the sex of the child.Methods: The sample included 1,063 primary schoolchildren (557 boys and 506 girls, aged 8–10 years) from a two-wave observational study between 2018 and 2019 in Wuhan, China. Child neglect and BWP were investigated using self-administered questionnaires. The accuracy of BWP was defined by comparing the BWP and actual body weight, and it was categorized into three groups—consistent, underestimated, and overestimated. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted with fitting child neglect as the independent variable and the accuracy of BWP as the dependent variable.Results: The prevalence of weight misperception was ~44% at baseline (underestimation 40%; overestimation 4%) in Chinese primary schoolchildren. In the cross-sectional analysis, children with a higher level of neglect were more likely to misperceive their body weight. Moreover, there was an apparent sex-related difference that boys who experienced a higher level of neglect significantly reported more underestimation, while girls reported more overestimation. There was no significant longitudinal association between child neglect and the change in BWP accuracy.Conclusions: This study revealed that a higher level of neglect was significantly associated with underestimated BWP in boys and overestimated BWP in girls. The mechanisms of sex-related difference and whether child neglect is involved in the change in BWP, merit further investigations.

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Social factors, weight perception, and weight control practices among adolescents in Mexico

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

The impact of urbanization on risk for eating disorders

The impact of urbanization on risk for eating disorders

Association of body image dissatisfaction with body mass index trajectory: the Adolescent Nutritional Assessment Longitudinal Study cohort

Sex-Related Difference in the Association Between Child Neglect and the Accuracy of Body Weight Perception Among Chinese Primary Schoolchildren

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