Investigating how gender differences can vary by parental acculturation

调查性别差异如何因父母文化适应而变化

• 批准号: 10302634
• 负责人: Michelle Lynn Frisco
• 金额: $ 8.77万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10302634
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adoption; Age; Area; Attention; Behavior; Betula Genus; Body Weight; Calories; Cessation of life; Child; Child Rearing; Conflict (Psychology); Consumption; Data; Data Analyses; Diet; Diet Records; Eating; Eating Behavior; Ecosystem; Equation; Exposure to; Family; Food; Food Patterns; Fostering; Gatekeeping; Gender; Health; Health Food; Healthy Eating; Home; Household; Immigrant; Immigration; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Link; Location; Measures; Mediating; Methodology; Methods; Mexican; Modeling; Monitor; Morbidity - disease rate; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; Nutritional; Obesity; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Portraits; Preparation; Prevalence; Recording of previous events; Research; Restaurants; Risk; Role; Sampling; School-Age Population; Schools; Shapes; Signal Transduction; Site; Social Environment; Social Identification; Socialization; Source; Structure; Systems Theory; Techniques; Testing; Weight Gain; Youth; adult obesity; boys; consumption measures; dietary; expectation; feeding; food consumption; food environment; gender difference; girls; health disparity; holistic approach; improved; innovation; men; novel; nutrition; obesity in children; obesity risk; obesogenic; parental role; role model; trend

PROJECT SUMMARY Children's food consumption is a proximate determinant of obesity, a health condition with serious implications for short- and long-term morbidity. Children of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are especially vulnerable to obesity, with boys even more at risk than girls. This pattern motivates the current study, which will accomplish three aims that will produce new knowledge about gender differences in food consumption among children of Mexican immigrants. We will first investigate gender differences in total food consumed, two measures of dietary acculturation, and six measures of (un)healthy eating, along with the role that families have in fostering gender differences. We will then investigate whether there are gender differences in where children of Mexican immigrants consume food and whether these differences help to explain gender differences in food consumption. Finally, we will investigate whether gender differences in what food children consume and where they consume it varies by parental acculturation. The study's aims are motivated by a framework that draws from ecological systems theory to organize research about parenting dynamics within immigrant families and the acculturation of immigrant parents and their children. Aims will be accomplished through novel analysis of data from 3,580 children of Mexican immigrants ages 6–18 who participated in the 2003/4-2017/18 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). This study is the most comprehensive, nationally representative source of quantitative food dietary data that also includes a large sample of children of Mexican immigrants. We will employ three analytic approaches. OLS regression models will estimate gender differences in the study's food consumption measures and the number of daily meals consumed in different settings (home, restaurants, schools and other locations). Within- between models will then be used to better understand family-level mechanisms producing gender differences in what and where children consume food. To analyze the degree to which differences in where children consume food help to explain gender differences in food consumption, we will utilize structural equation models. This same modeling strategy will also be used to test whether paths in the structural equation models differ by parental acculturation level. The project team's (Frisco, Dondero, and Van Hook) collaborative history, methodological expertise with the NHANES and substantive areas of expertise make them ideally suited to accomplish this study and its aims.

项目概要 儿童食品消费是肥胖的直接决定因素，肥胖是一种严重的健康状况 对短期和长期发病率的影响。在美国的墨西哥移民的孩子尤其如此 容易肥胖，男孩比女孩更容易患肥胖症。 这种模式激发了当前的研究，它将实现三个目标，从而产生新的知识 关于墨西哥移民儿童食品消费的性别差异。我们首先会调查 食物消费总量的性别差异、饮食文化的两项衡量指标以及饮食适应的六项衡量指标 （不）健康饮食，以及家庭在促进性别差异方面的作用。我们随后将 调查墨西哥移民儿童的食物消费方式是否存在性别差异 这些差异是否有助于解释食物消费中的性别差异。最后，我们将调查 儿童食用食物和食用地点的性别差异是否因父母的不同而不同 文化适应。该研究的目标是基于一个框架，该框架借鉴了生态系统理论 组织有关移民家庭养育动态和移民文化适应的研究 父母和他们的孩子。 这些目标将通过对 3,580 名墨西哥移民儿童的数据进行新颖分析来实现 6-18 名参加 2003/4-2017/18 国家健康和营养检查调查 (NHANES) 的人。 这项研究是最全面、最具全国代表性的定量食品饮食数据来源， 还包括大量墨西哥移民儿童样本。我们将采用三种分析方法。 OLS 回归模型将估计研究食物消费指标中的性别差异以及 在不同环境（家庭、餐馆、学校和其他地点）每天消耗的膳食数量。之内- 然后模型之间的模型将用于更好地理解产生性别差异的家庭层面机制 儿童食用什么食物以及在哪里食用。分析儿童在哪里的差异程度 消费食物有助于解释食物消费的性别差异，我们将利用结构方程 模型。同样的建模策略也将用于测试结构方程模型中的路径是否 因父母的文化适应水平而异。 项目团队（Frisco、Dondero 和 Van Hook）与 NHANES 和实质性专业领域使他们非常适合完成这项研究及其目标。