ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2009
Maternal employment and overweight among Hispanic children of immigrants and children of natives.
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- Theoretical foundations of the Study of Latino (SOL) Youth: implications for obesity and cardiometabolic risk.Annals of epidemiology · 2014Article
- The shape of things to come? Obesity prevalence among foreign-born vs. US-born Mexican youth in California.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- A population study of 5 to 15 year olds: full time maternal employment not associated with high BMI. The importance of screen-based activity, reading for pleasure and sleep duration in children's BMI.Maternal and child health journal · 2012Article
- Canaries in a coalmine: Immigration and overweight among Mexican-origin children in the US and Mexico.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2012Article
- Mexican American birthweight and child overweight: unraveling a possible early life course health transition.Journal of health and social behavior · 2011Article
- Trajectories of overweight among US school children: a focus on social and economic characteristics.Maternal and child health journal · 2011Article
- Big boys and little girls: gender, acculturation, and weight among young children of immigrants.Journal of health and social behavior · 2010Article
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Abstract
This research examines the relationship between maternal employment and child overweight among fifth grade Hispanic and non-Hispanic white children. Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten (ECLS-K) cohort fifth grade sample (N = 4,360) were analyzed. OLS regression models were estimated predicting percentile BMI as a function of maternal employment, ethnicity, parental nativity status, income, and the interactions of employment, ethnicity/nativity, and income. Among Hispanic children of immigrants, maternal employment is associated with lower percentile BMI and this association strengthens at higher levels of income. Among Hispanic children of natives and non-Hispanic whites, maternal employment is beneficial (i.e. associated with lower percentile BMI) among low-income children but detrimental among high-income children, but this pattern is significantly greater in strength for Hispanics than non-Hispanic whites. Thus, maternal employment is associated with worse health outcomes only in the case of Hispanic children of natives, and maternal employment is associated with the best outcomes for Hispanic children of mothers from high-income families. We speculate that among children of immigrants, maternal employment may signify and/or accelerate assimilation towards middle- or upper-class American values of healthy weight and body size. Diet, meal regularity and supervision, and childcare did not mediate the relationship between maternal employment and overweight.
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