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Granberg, Ellen M.; Simons, Leslie Gordon; Simons, Ronald L. – Youth & Society, 2009
Social psychologists have amassed a large body of work demonstrating that overweight African American adolescent girls have generally positive self-images, particularly when compared with overweight females from other racial and ethnic groups. Some scholars have proposed that elements of African American social experience may contribute to the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Obesity, Females, Psychologists