Body Mass Index, Dieting, Romance, and Sexual Activity in Adolescent Girls: Relationships over Time

Autor/inn/en	Halpern, Carolyn Tucker; King, Rosalind Berkowitz; Oslak, Selene G.; Udry, J. Richard
Titel	Body Mass Index, Dieting, Romance, and Sexual Activity in Adolescent Girls: Relationships over Time
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15 (2005) 4, S.535-559 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1050-8392
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7795.2005.00110.x
Schlagwörter	Dietetics; African Americans; Whites; Hispanic Americans; Females; Sexuality; Body Composition; Adolescents; Interpersonal Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Predictor Variables; Dating (Social) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ernährungslehre; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexualität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Prädiktor
Abstract	Romantic relationships constitute an important, but understudied, developmental context for accommodation to pubertal change. Using a nationally representative sample of 5,487 black, white, and Hispanic adolescent females, this study examined associations among body mass index, current romantic involvement, and dieting. For each one point increase in body mass-index (BMI), the probability of having a romantic relationship decreased by 6%. Further, involvement in a nonsexual romantic relationship--but not involvement in a sexual romantic relationship--was associated with a significant increase in the likelihood of dieting. Associations between relationship type and dieting did not vary by age, socioeconomic status, or race, but were stronger at higher BMIs. These findings confirm that weight has implications for romantic involvement, which is highly valued by adolescent girls, and that romantic relationships, in turn, are important contexts in which to consider psychological and behavioral accommodation to the physical changes of puberty. (Author).
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