ArticleSociology of health & illness2012
Does reading keep you thin? Leisure activities, cultural tastes, and body weight in comparative perspective.
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- Role of leisure and sleep in promoting daily physical activity in adults with down syndrome.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Understanding educational inequalities in sports participation through structurally based resources and individual agency - a sequential mediation analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Is the association between financial scarcity and health behaviours moderated by cultural capital? The GLOBE study.European journal of public health · 2023Article
- Testing conditionality with Bourdieu's capital theory: How economic, social, and embodied cultural capital are associated with diet and physical activity in the Netherlands.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- An incongruous intervention: Exploring the role of anti-institutionalism in less-educated individual's limited uptake of nutrition information.Sociology of health & illness · 2022Article
- How does cultural capital keep you thin? Exploring unique aspects of cultural class that link social advantage to lower body mass index.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Are socio-economic inequalities in diet and physical activity a matter of social distinction? A cross-sectional study.International journal of public health · 2019Article
- Education and mental health: Do psychosocial resources matter?SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Health Lifestyle Behaviors among U.S. Adults.SSM - population health · 2017Article
- The Impact of Social and Cultural Engagement and Dieting on Well-Being and Resilience in a Group of Residents in the Metropolitan Area of Naples.Journal of aging research · 2016Article
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Abstract
While sedentary leisure-time activities such as reading, going to movies, attending cultural events, going to sporting events, watching TV, listening to music, and socialising with friends would seem to contribute to excess weight, a perspective focusing on socioeconomic status (SES) differences in cultural tastes suggests the opposite, that some sedentary activities are associated with lower rather than higher body weight. This study aims to test theories of cultural distinction by examining relationships between leisure-time activities and body weight. Using 2007 data on 17 nations from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), the analysis estimates relationships between the body mass index and varied leisure-time activities while controlling for SES, physical activities, and sociodemographic variables. Net of controls for SES and physical activities, participation time in cultural activities is associated with lower rather than higher body weight, particularly in high-income nations. The results suggest that both cultural activities and body weight reflect forms of distinction that separate SES-based lifestyles.
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