ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2012
Risky sexual behavior: a race-specific social consequence of obesity.
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- Factors related to obesity and overweight among Black adolescent girls in the United States.Women & health · 2017Pooled it
- Integrating Individual and Contextual Factors to Explain Disparities in HIV/STI Among Heterosexual African American Youth: A Contemporary Literature Review and Social Ecological Model.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Review
- Sexual Risk Behaviors during Adolescence: Associations with Childhood and Adolescent BMI.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
- Risky sexual behaviors and their association with overweight and obesity among adolescent students: a cross-sectional study.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2019Article
- Association of adolescent obesity with risky sexual behaviors: Results from Mississippi YRBS, 2013-2015.International journal of advanced research in science, engineering and technology · 2018Article
- Role of Social Support in the Relationship between Acculturative Stress and Discrimination among Latino Immigrants in the USA.International journal of advanced research in science, engineering and technology · 2018Article
- Objective and Perceived Weight: Associations with Risky Adolescent Sexual Behavior.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2016Article
- Increased Body Mass Index Associated with Increased Risky Sexual Behaviors.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology · 2016Article
- Stigma, Obesity and Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Current Research and Future Directions.Current opinion in psychology · 2015Article
- Sexual Behavior and Contraceptive Use among 18- to 19-Year-Old Adolescent Women by Weight Status: A Longitudinal Analysis.The Journal of pediatrics · 2015Article
- Weight perceptions, misperceptions, and dating violence victimization among U.S. adolescents.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2015Article
- Association between body mass index, sexually transmitted infections, and contraceptive compliance.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2013Article
- Adolescent obesity and risky sexual behavior.American journal of preventive medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
Scant attention has been given to the consequence of actual weight status for adolescents' sexual wellbeing. In this article, we investigate the race-specific connection between obesity and risky sexual behavior among adolescent girls. Propensity scores and radius matching are used to analyze a sample of 340 adolescents aged 16-17 who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Young Adult Survey in 2000 or 2002. Nearly even numbers of these participants identified as white and black (183 and 157, respectively). We find that compared to their non-obese white peers, obese white adolescent girls exhibit higher rates of multiple sex partners and sex with older partners, and are also less likely to use condoms. None of these factors are significantly related to high BMI within the black sample. These findings indicate that the negative social consequences of obesity extend beyond future economic and marriage outcomes to adolescent white women's sexual outcomes. They also highlight the importance of context: the implications of being obese during adolescence depend on cultural meanings of obesity.
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