Young Teenagers' Perceptions of Their Own and Others' Bodies : A Qualitative Study of Obese, Overweight and Normal Weight Young People in Scotland  

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Wills, Wendy ; Backet-Milburn, Kathryn ; Gregory, Susan ; Lawton, Julia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 396-406.
Topik: obesity; scotland; young teenagers; obesity; overweight; body image; qualitative study

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The rise in numbers of overwight / obese children in the UK is causing widespread concern. Biomedical constructions of body acceptability and good health men that overwight / obese young people are frequently seen as deviant. The socio cultural contexts within which young teenagers become fat, and lay conceptualisations of fatness, have largerly been ignored. This qualitative study involved in depth interviews with teenagers aged 13 01 4 years (n = 36), drawn from families living in areas classified as socio economically disadvantaged. Hold of the sample had a body mass index (BMI) classifying them as overweight or obese, whilst the remainder were classified as being normal weight. Particiapants' embodied perceptions of fatness were complex and sometimes contradictory. We discuss what young teenagers perceive that influences on fatness and body size to be, the professed consequences of being fat, participant's experiences of attempting to lose weight, and their reported interactions with friends and family relating to fatness and dieting. Participants rarewly mentioned any health related consequences of their own and others' fatness, although wearing nice clothes and being slowed down were raised as consiferations by girls and boys, respectively normal weight teenargers who disliked their bodies or who wanted to lose weight often claimed to be anxious about this. Being very obese also led to anxiety and reported attempts at crash dieting. Acceptance of body size / shape was, however, common amongst the overweight and obese teenagers, although some had attempted wight loss. The teenagers i this study were rarely supportive of friends or family who attempted to lose weight and frequently disagreed with others' perceptions of fatness. These findings are improtant as they contradict the common perception that being overweight / obese is related to body dissatisfaction and that young people have a fear of fatness.

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