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Perceptions of body weight among older adults
— analyses of the intersection of gender, race, and socioeconomic status | | Author(s) | Scott Schieman, Tetyana Pudrovska, Rachel Eccles |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 6, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp S415-S423 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Obesity ; Weight ; Older men ; Older women ; Ethnic groups ; Economic status [elderly] ; Attitude ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from face-to-face interviews with 1164 people aged 65+ in the District of Columbia and two counties in Maryland in 2000-2001 were used to examine the effects of gender, race, and socioeconomic status (SES) on older people's perceptions of body weight and the role of status-based differences on body mass index (BMI) in these processes. With "perceived appropriate weight" as the comparison group, multinomial logistic regression analyses indicate that older people, women and high SES individuals are more likely than black men and low SES individuals to describe themselves as overweight or obese. However, these disparities are observed only after statistically adjusting for race, gender and SES disparities in BMI. Moreover, the positive effect of SES on the likelihood of reporting overweight or obese perceptions is strongest among black women. Among low SES individuals, white women are more likely than men and black women to describe themselves as obese (relative to the "perceived appropriate weight" category). These observations underscore the importance of taking SES contingencies into account when exploring race-gender differences in perceived body weight. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080307225 A |
| Classmark | CSA: 4X6: BC: BD: TK: F:W: DP: 49: 7T |
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