Circumstances, Resources, and Weight Status Outcomes Among Middle School Students

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11670742
AutoresK M Fitzpatrick (0000-0002-8802-1142, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, autor de correspondencia), D E Willis (0000-0001-9612-489X, University of Missouri), Don Willis (University of Missouri), G O'Connor (0000-0002-0081-8609, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
Año2014
Volumen34
Número8
Páginas1058-1074
Fecha de publicación2014-01-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Early Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-4316 • E-ISSN: 1552-5449
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0272431613518974
OpenAlexW2140086249
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

Obesity continues to plague U.S. school-age populations. A number of individual/structural circumstances have been identified as increasing the risk of poor health among children. The article’s aim is to examine some of these circumstances and their relationship to students being overweight/obese, while highlighting resource variables as potential mediators to these negative circumstances. Using a sample of fifth- to seventh-grade students ( n = 334) attending a middle school in Northwest Arkansas, logistic regression models assessed the odds of students being overweight/obese compared with students of normal weight for their age and gender. Overall, students with higher depressive symptomatology and lower perceived social class were more likely (higher odds) to be overweight/obese. Students reporting higher levels of social and psychological resources were less likely (lower odds) to be overweight/obese; an inspection of changes in the circumstance’s coefficients found once resources were introduced, resources appeared to play some mediating role in the final model

Depressive symptoms · Environmental health · Logistic regression · Obesity · Odds · Odds ratio · Overweight · Psychiatry · Sociology · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Health and Lifestyle Studies · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Gerontology