Brown Heather, Biosca Olga
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK.
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow, G4 0BA, UK.
Soc Sci Med. 2016 Jun;158:75-85. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.04.016. Epub 2016 Apr 19.
Obesity is a global health concern. This is the first study to explore if the relationship between body fatness and time preference is consistent across different ways of objectively measuring body fatness. Our second aim is to explore if there are differential associations between educational attainment and being a saver to determine if education can be used to change saving behaviour and subsequently body fatness. This paper uses data on 15,591 individuals from 2010/2011 of the Understanding Society Survey (UK) to explore the relationship between time preference, measured as being a saver and three objective measures of body fatness: BMI, percent body fatness (PBF), and waist circumference (WC). Our findings show that there is a negative relationship between the three measures of body fatness and being a saver. The strongest relationship is found for WC and being a saver for both genders. Overall, a stronger association is found for women than men. Our results suggest that differential effects by educational attainment can be found in the relationship between being a saver and body fatness. Educational interventions to improve savings behaviour and subsequently obesity may be more effective for women with lower levels of education.
肥胖是一个全球性的健康问题。这是第一项探讨身体肥胖程度与时间偏好之间的关系在不同客观测量身体肥胖程度的方法中是否一致的研究。我们的第二个目标是探究受教育程度与储蓄者身份之间是否存在差异关联，以确定教育是否可用于改变储蓄行为，进而改变身体肥胖程度。本文使用了来自英国理解社会调查2010/2011年的15591名个体的数据，来探究时间偏好（以储蓄者身份衡量）与三种身体肥胖程度的客观测量指标之间的关系：身体质量指数（BMI）、体脂百分比（PBF）和腰围（WC）。我们的研究结果表明，三种身体肥胖程度测量指标与储蓄者身份之间存在负相关关系。在腰围与储蓄者身份之间发现了最强的关系，且对男女两性均如此。总体而言，女性的关联比男性更强。我们的结果表明，在储蓄者身份与身体肥胖程度之间的关系中，可以发现受教育程度的差异影响。旨在改善储蓄行为并进而改善肥胖状况的教育干预措施，对教育水平较低的女性可能更有效。
