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The Skinny on Success: Body Mass, Gender and Occupational Standing across the Life Course
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Glass, Christy M.; Haas, Steven A.; Reither, Eric N. – Social Forces, 2010
Several studies have analyzed the impact of obesity on occupational standing. This study extends previous research by estimating the influence of body mass on occupational attainment over three decades of the career using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In a series of covariance structure analyses, we considered three mechanisms that…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Females, Context Effect
Neighborhood Racial Isolation, Disorder and Obesity
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Chang, Virginia W.; Hillier, Amy E.; Mehta, Neil K. – Social Forces, 2009
Recent research suggests that racial residential segregation may be detrimental to health. This study investigates the influence of neighborhood racial isolation on obesity and considers the role of neighborhood disorder as a mediator in this relationship. For the city of Philadelphia, we find that residence in a neighborhood with high black…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Obesity, Body Composition, Females
Gender, Body Size and Social Relations in American High Schools
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Crosnoe, Robert; Frank, Kenneth; Mueller, Anna Strassmann – Social Forces, 2008
To investigate the role of body size in social networks, this study estimated cross-nested multilevel network models (p2) with longitudinal data from the 16 saturated schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. As body mass index increased, the likelihood of being nominated by schoolmates as friends--but not the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Females, Friendship, Adolescents