ArticleJournal of obesity2012
Weight misperceptions and racial and ethnic disparities in adolescent female body mass index.
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- Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Obesity and Biological, Behavioral, and Sociocultural Influences in the United States: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Weight Misperception among African American Adolescents: The Jackson Heart KIDS Pilot Study.Ethnicity & disease · 2021Observational
- Body shape concerns across racial and ethnic groups among adults in the United States: More similarities than differences.Body image · 2020Article
- Nutrition Transition and Biocultural Determinants of Obesity among Cameroonian Migrants in Urban Cameroon and France.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Body weight misperception and psychological distress among young South Korean adults: the role of physical activity.Global health research and policy · 2017Article
- Friends Like Me: Associations in Overweight/Obese Status among Adolescent Friends by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Friendship Type.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2015Article
- Is obesity related to deteriorating mental health of the U.S. working-age population?Journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Article
- Size misperception among overweight and obese families.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Article
- Self-reported versus actual weight and height data contribute to different weight misperception classifications.Southern medical journal · 2014Article
- Self-regulation, motivation, and psychosocial factors in weight management.Journal of obesity · 2012Article
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Abstract
This paper investigated weight misperceptions as determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in body mass index (BMI) among adolescent females using data from the National Survey of Youth 1997. Compared to their white counterparts, higher proportions of black and Hispanic adolescent females underperceived their weight status; that is, they misperceived themselves to have lower weight status compared to their clinically defined weight status. Compared to their black counterparts, higher proportions of white and Hispanic adolescent females misperceived themselves to be heavier than their clinical weight status. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis showed that accounting for weight misperceptions, in addition to individual and contextual factors, increased the total explained portion of the black-white female BMI gap from 44.7% to 54.3% but only slightly increased the total explained portion of the Hispanic-white gap from 62.8% to 63.1%. Weight misperceptions explained 13.0% of the black-white female BMI gap and 3.3% of the Hispanic-white female BMI gap. The regression estimates showed that weight underperceptions were important determinants of adolescent female BMI, particularly among black and Hispanic adolescents. Education regarding identification and interpretation of weight status may play an important role to help reduce the incidence and racial disparity of female adolescent obesity.
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