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Gender differences in categorizing adolescents' weight status.

D R White1, E Schliecker, J Dayan

  • 1CRDH/Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Psychological Reports
|June 1, 1991
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Visual inspection accurately identified overweight status in adolescent girls, but not boys. This highlights a significant discrepancy in recognizing high relative weights between genders.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Human Physiology
  • Adolescent Health

Background:

  • Accurate assessment of weight status in adolescents is crucial for public health.
  • Discrepancies exist in visual versus calculated methods for determining overweight status.
  • Gender-based differences in body composition and perception may influence weight categorization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the agreement between visual inspection and percent overweight calculations for categorizing weight status in adolescents.
  • To identify potential gender-specific differences in the accuracy of visual weight assessment.

Main Methods:

  • A cohort of adolescent girls (n=51) and boys (n=70) were assessed.
  • Weight status was categorized using two methods: visual inspection and percent overweight calculation.

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  • Agreement between the two methods was analyzed for each gender.

    • Main Results:

    • High agreement was observed between visual inspection and percent overweight categorization for adolescent girls.
    • Low agreement was found for adolescent boys, with only 49% of those with high relative weights being visually identified as overweight.
    • Conversely, 90% of adolescent girls with high relative weights were correctly identified through visual inspection.

    Conclusions:

    • Visual inspection is a reliable method for assessing overweight status in adolescent girls.
    • Visual assessment is less reliable for identifying overweight status in adolescent boys, suggesting a need for improved screening tools.
    • Further research is warranted to understand the factors contributing to gender differences in weight perception and categorization.