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Source: BMC Womens Health
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Lee, Jaewon
Allen, Jennifer
Young Women's Food Consumption and Mental Health: The Role of Employment
BMC Women's Health 22, 91 (March 2022): DOI: 10.1186/s12905-022-01675-4.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12905-022-01675-4
Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Employment; Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Objectives: This study explores the relationship between young women's consumption of healthy and unhealthy food and depression and examines the moderating effect of their employment status on the relationship.

Methods: The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for Children and Young Adults (NLSY79 CY) was used for this study. The final sample included a total of 1524 young women aged from 18 to 35 years. Multiple Linear Regression was conducted to answer the research questions.

Results: Fast food consumption was related to higher levels of depression among young women while fruit intake was associated with lower levels of depression. Employment status moderated the relationship between young women's fruit consumption and depression.

Bibliography Citation
Lee, Jaewon and Jennifer Allen. "Young Women's Food Consumption and Mental Health: The Role of Employment." BMC Women's Health 22, 91 (March 2022): DOI: 10.1186/s12905-022-01675-4.
2. Maslowsky, Julie
Hendrick, C. Emily
Stritzel, Haley
Mechanisms Linking Teenage Mothers' Educational Attainment with Self-reported Health at Age 50
BMC Women's Health 21 (2021): 15.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12905-020-01150-y
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Educational Attainment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Background: Early childbearing is associated with adverse health and well-being throughout the life course for women in the United States. As education continues to be a modifiable social determinant of health after a young woman gives birth, the association of increased educational attainment with long-term health for women who begin childbearing as teenagers is worthy of investigation.

Methods: Data are from 301 mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 who gave birth prior to age 19. We estimated path models to assess women's incomes, partner characteristics, and health behaviors at age 40 as mediators of the relationship between their educational attainment and self-rated general health at age 50.

Results: After accounting for observed background factors that select women into early childbearing and lower educational attainment, higher levels of education (high school diploma and GED attainment vs. no degree) were indirectly associated with higher self-rated health at age 50 via higher participant income at age 40.

Bibliography Citation
Maslowsky, Julie, C. Emily Hendrick and Haley Stritzel. "Mechanisms Linking Teenage Mothers' Educational Attainment with Self-reported Health at Age 50." BMC Women's Health 21 (2021): 15.