Branigan Amelia R
Cornell Population Center, Cornell University, MVR Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Sociol Educ. 2017 Jan;90(1):25-46. doi: 10.1177/0038040716680271. Epub 2016 Dec 5.
In this study I hypothesize a larger penalty of obesity on teacher-assessed academic performance for white girls in English, where femininity is privileged, than in math, where stereotypical femininity is perceived to be a detriment. This pattern of associations would be expected if obesity largely influences academic performance through social pathways such as discrimination and stigma. In the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (age 9) and the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 (age 18), I find obesity to be associated with a penalty on academic performance among white girls in English but not in math, while no association is found in either subject for white boys or for black students net of controls. Findings suggest that the relationship between obesity and academic performance may result largely from how educational institutions interact with bodies of different sizes, rather than primarily via constraints on physical health.
在本研究中，我假设，对于白人女孩而言，在英语（在其中女性气质备受推崇）方面，肥胖对教师评估的学业成绩的负面影响要大于在数学方面（在其中传统女性气质被视为不利因素）。如果肥胖主要通过歧视和污名等社会途径影响学业成绩，那么就会出现这种关联模式。在脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究（约9岁）和1997年全国青年纵向研究（约18岁）中，我发现肥胖与白人女孩在英语方面的学业成绩受到负面影响有关，但在数学方面并非如此，而在控制变量后，无论是白人男孩还是黑人学生，在这两个学科中均未发现肥胖与学业成绩之间存在关联。研究结果表明，肥胖与学业成绩之间的关系可能主要源于教育机构与不同体型身体的互动方式，而非主要通过对身体健康的限制。
