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Title: Adolescent Obesity and First Union Outcomes in Young Adulthood: Does Dating Experience Tell the Story?
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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. |