Yu Baeksan
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Oslo, Norway.
Faculty of Social Sciences, PROMENTA Research Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 16;12:640474. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640474. eCollection 2021.
This study draws the attention towards the importance of reducing weight discrimination against children for their educational success, as an issue of social justice. We investigate the consequences of early-onset obesity identifying the mediating mechanisms in the relationship between childhood obesity and academic achievement. To do so, we employ the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (kindergarten to fifth grade) in the US (ECLS-K: 2011) and apply a parallel process latent growth model with a combination of quasi-experiments and econometrics. The results of this study suggest that teachers may serve as a significant source of weight bias, especially for girls ( = -0.09, 95% BC CI [-2.37 to -0.46]).
本研究将人们的注意力引向减少针对儿童的体重歧视对其学业成功的重要性，这是一个社会正义问题。我们调查早发性肥胖的后果，确定儿童肥胖与学业成绩之间关系的中介机制。为此，我们采用了美国的幼儿纵向研究——幼儿园队列（从幼儿园到五年级）（2011年幼儿纵向研究——幼儿园队列），并应用了结合准实验和计量经济学的平行过程潜在增长模型。本研究结果表明，教师可能是体重偏见的一个重要来源，尤其是对女孩而言（β = -0.09，95% 偏差校正置信区间 [-2.37 至 -0.46]）。
