Frisco Michelle L, Lybbert Emily A, Muller Chandra, Grodsky Eric, Robert Warren J
Penn State University Department of Sociology & Criminology, 601 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building, University Park, PA, 16802, United States.
University of Texas Department of Sociology, 116 Inner Campus Dr. Stop G6000, Austin, TX, 18712, United States.
Soc Sci Med. 2025 Feb;367:117693. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117693. Epub 2025 Jan 16.
This study investigates how the high school experiences of a nationally representative cohort of 1980 United States' high school sophomores and seniors are associated with midlife weight. Drawing from theory and previous research led us to expect that family and high school SES, school type, and curricular tracks could be key dimensions of people's high school lives that had salience for midlife weight, possibly in gendered ways. This premise was largely supported in bivariate analyses. In fully adjusted models, family and high school SES were related to women's midlife weight as measured by BMI and having obesity above and beyond a wide range of control variables including academic attainment and high school weight. Among men, high school SES and private school attendance retained significant associations with having obesity in fully adjusted models. Study findings identify important features of individuals' high school lives that are related to later life weight, and they provide evidence that attainment is not the only dimension of people's educational careers that has implications for weight.
本研究调查了1980年具有全国代表性的美国高二和高三学生群体的高中经历与中年体重之间的关联。基于理论和先前的研究，我们预计家庭和高中社会经济地位、学校类型以及课程轨道可能是人们高中生活的关键维度，这些维度可能以性别差异的方式对中年体重产生显著影响。这一前提在双变量分析中得到了很大程度的支持。在完全调整模型中，家庭和高中社会经济地位与女性的中年体重相关，中年体重通过身体质量指数（BMI）以及在包括学业成就和高中体重在内的广泛控制变量之外患有肥胖症来衡量。在男性中，高中社会经济地位和就读私立学校在完全调整模型中与患有肥胖症仍保持显著关联。研究结果确定了个体高中生活中与晚年体重相关的重要特征，并提供了证据表明学业成就并非人们教育生涯中唯一对体重有影响的维度。
