ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2010
Big boys and little girls: gender, acculturation, and weight among young children of immigrants.
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- Does acculturation affect the dietary intakes and body weight status of children of immigrants in the U.S. and other developed countries? A systematic review.Ethnicity & health · 2019Pooled it
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- BMI Growth Profiles Among Black Children from Immigrant and US-Born Families.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Follow-up after bariatric surgery: is it time to tailor it? Analysis of early predictive factors of 3-year weight loss predictors of unsuccess in bariatric patients.Updates in surgery · 2022Article
- Individual-, family-, and contextual-level variables do not explain the protective effect of parental nativity status on changes in 3-15-year-old children's BMI.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Overweight and Obesity in Children of Immigrant Versus Native Parents: Exploring a Local Setting in Portugal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Predicting BMI in Young Children with Developmental Delay and Externalizing Problems: Links with Caregiver Depressive Symptoms and Acculturation.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2020Article
- Examining Mexican-Heritage Mothers' Perceptions of Their Children's Weight: Comparison of Silhouette and Categorical Survey Methods.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2020Article
- Signs of the End of the Paradox? Cohort Shifts in Smoking and Obesity and the Hispanic Life Expectancy Advantage.Sociological science · 2020Article
- Understanding local ethnic inequalities in childhood BMI through cross-sectional analysis of routinely collected local data.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Decline of childhood overweight and obesity in Italy from 2008 to 2016: results from 5 rounds of the population-based surveillance system.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Measures of Acculturation and Relations to zBMI among Mexican-Origin Youth.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Article
- The influence of immigrant generation on obesity among Asian Americans in California from 2013 to 2014.PloS one · 2019Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities: a Longitudinal Study of Growth Trajectories Among US Kindergarten Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
- Association between acculturation and body weight status among migrant children in Guangzhou, China: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Growing up in Australia: paradox of overweight/obesity in children of immigrants from low-and-middle -income countries.Obesity science & practice · 2018Article
- Body size reference norms and subjective weight status: A gender and life course approach.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2018Article
- Obesity in International Migrant Populations.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset.Social science research · 2017Article
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Abstract
Previous research fails to find a consistent association between obesity and acculturation for children. We theorize that social isolation shelters children of immigrants from the U.S."obesiogenic" environment, but this protective effect is offset by immigrant parents' limited capacity to identify and manage this health risk in the United States. We further theorize that these factors affect boys more than girls. We use data from over 20,000 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort and find that boys whose parents were raised outside the United States weighed more and gained weight faster than any other group. However, within this group, sons of low English-proficient parents gained weight more slowly than sons of English-proficient parents. The results thus suggest that two dimensions of low acculturation--foreign place of socialization and social iiolation--affect children's weight gain in opposite directions and are more important for boys than girls.
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