Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2020 Jun;61(2):239-258. doi: 10.1177/0022146520920599. Epub 2020 Jun 8.
Adolescent girls with overweight or obesity are less socially integrated than their thinner peers. We examine racial-ethnic differences in girls' weight-related friendship patterns, especially noting Black-white distinctions given their different norms about the ideal feminine form. We also test whether schools with more Black students see diminished weight-related differences in peer integration for all girls and/or for Black girls. Using 1994-1995 data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we predict the number of friendship nominations girls receive conditional on their weight status, race-ethnicity, and school's racial composition. Both white and Black girls with overweight or obesity are less integrated than their thinner peers regardless of the school's Black enrollment rate. Hispanic girls with overweight are more integrated than white girls with overweight, particularly in schools with low Black enrollments. The relative consistency of girls' weight-related friendship patterns demonstrates the ubiquity of dominant feminine thinness norms.
超重或肥胖的青春期少女的社交融合程度不如身材较瘦的同龄人。我们考察了女孩体重相关的友谊模式中的种族差异，特别注意到黑人和白人之间的差异，因为他们对理想女性身材的观念不同。我们还测试了是否有更多黑人学生的学校会减少所有女孩和/或黑人女孩在同伴融合方面的体重相关差异。利用 1994-1995 年来自青少年到成年健康全国纵向研究的数据，我们预测了女孩根据体重状况、种族和学校的种族构成收到的友谊提名数量。无论学校的黑人入学率如何，超重或肥胖的白人女孩和黑人女孩的融合程度都不如身材较瘦的同龄人。超重的西班牙裔女孩比超重的白人女孩融合程度更高，尤其是在黑人入学率较低的学校。女孩体重相关的友谊模式的相对一致性表明了占主导地位的女性苗条标准的普遍性。
