Women's body dissatisfaction, social class, and social mobility
Women's body dissatisfaction, social class, and social mobility
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00209-0
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发表时间：
2004-05-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Kuh, D
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作者：
McLaren, L;Kuh, D
多项研究表明，社会优势女性比社会弱势女性对自己的身体更不满意。这些研究结果基于女性当前的社会阶层，并没有关注其原生家庭的社会阶层或代际社会流动性。在本研究中，来自前瞻性出生队列研究的 912 名 54 岁女性提供了有关当前身体自尊（外观和体重尺寸）的自我报告数据。童年和成年社会阶层（体力劳动与非体力劳动）分别根据父亲的职业和自己或伴侣的职业来定义。这些信息和 26 岁之前记录的最高学历是前瞻性收集的。当前和青少年体重指数 (BMI) 指标是根据 15 岁（或 11 岁）和 53-54 岁收集的身高和体重值计算得出的。使用多元回归来检验中年身体自尊与儿童社会阶层、成人社会阶层、教育资格和社会流动性之间的关系，未根据BMI进行调整和调整。对于给定的体重指数，成年非体力班的女性比成年体力班的女性对自己的体重更不满意。调整体重指数后，流动性下降的女性比稳定的非体力女性对自己的外表更满意。调整体重指数后，较高的教育资格与对体重和外表的更多不满相关，并且在解释身体不满方面，教育似乎比职业定义的社会阶层更重要。为了更清楚地理解社会经济地位和身体不满意之间的关系，需要做出以下区分：体重与外表满意度、教育与职业、当前社会阶层与代际社会流动性。 (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
Several studies indicate that socially advantaged women are more dissatisfied with their bodies than socially disadvantaged women. These findings have been based on women's current social class, and no attention has been paid to the social class of her family of origin or to intergenerational social mobility. In the present research 912 54-year-old women from a prospective birth cohort study provided self-report data on current body esteem (appearance and weight dimensions). Childhood and adult social class (manual versus non-manual) were defined based on father's occupation and own or partner's occupation, respectively. This information and the highest educational qualifications recorded by age 26 were gathered prospectively. Indicators of current and adolescent body mass index (BMI) were computed from height and weight values collected at ages 15 (or 11) and 53-54 years. Multiple regression was used to examine the relationship between midlife body esteem and childhood social class, adult social class, educational qualifications, and social mobility, unadjusted and adjusted for BMI. Women from the non-manual classes as adults were more dissatisfied with their weight than women from the manual classes as adults, for a given BMI. Adjusting for BMI, downwardly mobile women were more satisfied with their appearance than stable non-manual women. Adjusting for BMI, higher educational qualifications were associated with more dissatisfaction with weight and with appearance, and education appears to be more important than occupationally defined social class in explaining body dissatisfaction. A clearer understanding of the relationship between socio-economic position and body dissatisfaction demands that the following distinctions are made: weight versus appearance satisfaction, education versus occupation, and current social class versus intergenerational social mobility. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.