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Author: Cheng, Yen-Hsin Alice
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Adolescent Obesity and First Union Outcomes in Young Adulthood: Does Dating Experience Tell the Story? Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Cohabitation; Dating; Marriage; Modeling; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study uses the NLSY97 data to explore the impact of adolescent overweight/obesity on the timing of forming a first union, both cohabitation and marriage. With a longitudinal sample of 5,385 adolescents age 12 to 18 at wave 1, the influence of body weight measured in wave 1 (1997) is analyzed along with time-varying annual dating and weight status history in discrete-time event history models. The findings show that dating activities only explain a small proportion of the negative association between being overweight/obese in wave 1 and the lower likelihood of experiencing a first cohabitation or marriage by young adulthood. For first marriage, the negative association became non-significant once the time-varying weight status measure is included. For cohabitation, an intriguing suppression effect is revealed with the inclusion of annual weight status in the model. A gendered pattern of weight effect on timing of first union is also observed. |
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Cheng, Yen-Hsin Alice. "Adolescent Obesity and First Union Outcomes in Young Adulthood: Does Dating Experience Tell the Story?" Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013. |
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Longer Exposure to Obesity, Slimmer Chance of College? Body Weight Trajectories, Non-Cognitive Skills, and College Completion Youth and Society 49,2 (March 2017): 203-227. Also: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0044118X14540183 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Obesity; Personality/Big Five Factor Model or Traits; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The NLSY97 data were used to explore the patterns of developmental trajectories of body weight in adolescence and how they affected the likelihood of college completion in young adulthood among 2,275 youths aged 13 and 14 in Wave 1. A strong weight trajectory gradient was found for rates of college completion. The study further explored the role of non-cognitive traits in the association between weight trajectories and college attainment. Non-cognitive traits were found to partially mediate the impact of certain weight trajectories on the likelihood of college completion. Some moderating effects of conscientiousness were also found. The findings from the gender and weight trajectory interaction terms showed that a stronger negative impact of weight trajectory on college completion is only observed for women in the late-teen-onset overweight group. This study highlights the importance of using a longitudinal weight measure and the role of non-cognitive traits in adolescent obesity research. |
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Cheng, Yen-Hsin Alice. "Longer Exposure to Obesity, Slimmer Chance of College? Body Weight Trajectories, Non-Cognitive Skills, and College Completion." Youth and Society 49,2 (March 2017): 203-227.
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