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发帖数: 29846 | 1 $466,642 Federal Study: Why Do Fat Girls Get Fewer Dates?
December 4, 2014 - 3:36 PM
By Melanie Hunter
(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health has awarded $466,642 in
taxpayer dollars to Magee-Women’s Research Institute and Foundation in
Pittsburgh, Pa., to study the role of romantic relationships in the sexual
behavior of obese and non-obese girls.
“Mounting evidence demonstrates that weight influences intimate (i.e.,
dating and sexual) relationship formation and sexual negotiations among
adolescent girls. Obese girls consistently report having fewer dating and
sexual experiences, but more sexual risk behaviors (i.e., condom nonuse)
once they are sexually active,” the grant abstract said.
“No studies have actually examined whether the interpersonal skills and
intimate relationships of obese and non-obese girls differ,” it said.
The project will use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of
Adolescent Health, conducted between 1994 and 2008, and the Pittsburgh Girls
Study, an ongoing study which began in 2000.
The goals of the project are “to (1) determine whether obese adolescent
girls experience a delay in the development of peer and intimate
relationship skills compared to non-obese adolescent girls; (2) compare the
characteristics of intimate relationships among obese and non-obese
adolescent girls; (3) use longitudinal growth curve modeling to determine
whether trajectories of romantic and sexual relationship characteristics
differ between obese and non-obese adolescent girls over time; (4) determine
how peer and intimate relationship skills affect trajectories of intimate
relationships among obese and non-obese adolescent girls over time; and (5)
compare the development of interpersonal skills and intimate relationship
characteristics between obese and non-obese African American and White
adolescent girls.”
The overarching goal of the research is “to expand the conceptual framework
linking weight to adolescent sexual risk-taking thereby providing critical
information useful for tailoring adolescent sexual risk-reduction
interventions and sexual negotiation skills building programs.”
CNSNews.com attempted to contact Aletha Akers, project leader for the grant,
by email for comment, but no comment was provided before publication. |
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