Ball K, Crawford D
Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Int J Obes (Lond). 2006 Aug;30(8):1240-9. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803267. Epub 2006 Feb 21.
This study explored the biological, psychological, social and environmental correlates of young women's current weight and retrospective 2-year weight change.
A total of 790 young women (mean age 26.8 years), sampled from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, provided self-reported data on their height and weight, sociodemographics and a range of biological, psychological, social and environmental variables.
Several variables from all domains (biological, psychological, social support and environmental) were correlated with higher body mass index, and less strongly greater 2-year weight change. Key correlates included the tendency to never put on weight, no matter what; self-efficacy for avoiding weight gain, and for healthy eating; attention paid to weight; family support and friends' support/sabotage of physical activity/healthy eating; and perceived difficulty of taking the stairs rather than the elevator as part of the daily routine.
Intervention strategies aimed at reducing weight gain and obesity may need to focus on social and environmental, as well as psychological factors; however, further research is necessary to confirm these findings given that a number of hypothesized associations were not observed.
本研究探讨了年轻女性当前体重及回顾性两年体重变化的生物学、心理学、社会和环境相关因素。
从澳大利亚女性健康纵向研究中抽取了790名年轻女性（平均年龄26.8岁），她们提供了关于身高、体重、社会人口统计学以及一系列生物学、心理学、社会和环境变量的自我报告数据。
来自所有领域（生物学、心理学、社会支持和环境）的几个变量与较高的体重指数相关，与两年内较大的体重变化相关性较弱。关键相关因素包括无论如何都从不增重的倾向；避免体重增加和健康饮食的自我效能感；对体重的关注；家庭支持以及朋友对体育活动/健康饮食的支持/破坏；以及将爬楼梯而非乘电梯作为日常活动一部分时所感知到的困难。
旨在减少体重增加和肥胖的干预策略可能需要关注社会和环境因素以及心理因素；然而，鉴于一些假设的关联未被观察到，需要进一步研究来证实这些发现。
