Making Sense of Eating, Weight and Risk in the Early Teenage Years : Views and Concerns of Parents in Poorer Socio Economic Circumstances  

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Backett-Milburn, Kathryn C. ; Wills, Wendy J. ; Gregory, Susan ; Lawton, Julia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 3 (Aug. 2006), page 624-635.
Topik: FOOD; food; teenagers; parents; weight; socio economic disadvantage; scotland

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper reports findings from a qualitative study which examined the perceptions and understandings underpinning the dietary practices in families with normal weight and overweight young teenagers living in poorer socio economic circumstances. Thirty four parents main food providers of boys and girls aged 13 - 14 years from socio economically disadvantaged areas in eastern scotland were interviewed. Within the home there was a strong acknowledgement of these early teenagers' own food preferences, parents also saw them as having increasing responsibility for their own food choices out with the home but these were often described as not healthy choices. However parents saw dietary issues as of fairly low priority in the hierarchy of health relevant and other risks facing their teenagers. Equally, these interviewees felt that issues around body shape and size at this age were less potentially problematic than the risks to teenagers' mental or physical health of their becoming obsessed with weight loss. parents often made sense of their teeenager's ody size and shape in terms of the variety of body types in families and inherited traits. Interviewes seemed to lack a discourse to understand weight and overweight in this age group, falling back in understandings derived from the adult lifestage.

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