Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obesity during the Transition to Adulthood: The Contingent and Nonlinear Impact of Neighborhood Disadvantage

Autor/inn/en	Nicholson, Lisa M.; Browning, Christopher R.
Titel	Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obesity during the Transition to Adulthood: The Contingent and Nonlinear Impact of Neighborhood Disadvantage
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41 (2012) 1, S.53-66 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-011-9685-z
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Neighborhoods; Race; Obesity; Early Adolescents; Young Adults; Whites; Minority Groups; Racial Differences; Disadvantaged; Longitudinal Studies; Hispanic Americans; Prevention; Ethnicity; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Rasse; Abstammung; Adipositas; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; White; Weißer; Ethnische Minderheit; Rassenunterschied; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ethnizität
Abstract	Neighborhood disadvantage in early adolescence may help explain racial and ethnic disparities in obesity during the transition to adulthood; however the processes may work differently for males and females and for minority groups compared to Whites. The present study examines the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and young adult obesity and the extent to which it contributes to racial/ethnic disparities among males and females. Data are from waves I and III of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative sample of adolescents administered between 1994 and 2002. The final sample of 5,759 adolescents was 54% female, 63% White, 21% African American, 16% Hispanic, and 14 years of age, on average, at wave I. Using hierarchical logit models and controlling for prior obesity status, findings indicate that, for females, adolescent neighborhood disadvantage partially explains racial/ethnic disparities in young adult obesity. Further, neighborhood disadvantage increases the odds of becoming obese for adolescent females in a curvilinear form, and this relationship significantly varies between Whites and Hispanics. Neighborhood disadvantage does not increase the risk of obesity for males, regardless of race/ethnicity. Implications for obesity prevention are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10