加拿大青少年的种族/民族身份和感知身体形象
Jana Bataineh1, Sydney Bartlett1, Ajwa Nayab1
1Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
Global health promotion
|March 12, 2025
概括
加拿大的青少年对身体形象的看法主要取决于性别,而不是种族或种族. 在所有群体中,男孩倾向于觉得自己太瘦,而女孩更常觉得自己太胖.
科学领域:
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 身体形象研究研究
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
背景情况:
- 青少年的身体形象显著影响健康行为,积极的看法与健康促进有关,负面的看法与冒险有关.
- 社会规范,文化理想和性别期望可能会影响青少年的身体形象,但种族/民族差异在加拿大仍然未得到充分探索.
- 现有的研究往往强调性别规范,可能忽视了种族和种族在塑造身体形象认知中的作用.
研究的目的:
- 描述性地检查加拿大青少年对身体形象的自我认知.
- 通过种族/种族和性别来分层身体形象感知.
- 调查基于种族/民族和性别认同的身体形象的潜在变化.
主要方法:
- 一项描述性,横截面的研究,利用了2017-2018年加拿大学龄儿童健康行为 (HBSC) 研究的数据.
- 分析包括加拿大18,766名青少年的加权样本.
- 分析了自我报告的身体形象感知,按种族/种族和性别分层.
主要成果:
- 根据性别,人体形象的感知有很大差异:男孩更有可能报告感觉"太瘦",而女孩更有可能报告感觉"太胖".
- 这些基于性别的身体形象感知趋势在各种种族和种族群体中是一致的.
- 在加拿大青少年中,在不同的种族/种族线上观察到身体形象模式的很少变化.
结论:
- 在加拿大,性别规范对青少年的身体形象看法的影响比种族或种族因素更大.
- 在加拿大背景下,青少年的身体形象似乎并没有沿着种族/种族线显著变化.
- 未来的研究应该考虑性别,种族和种族的相互作用,以了解青少年的身体形象及其对健康的影响.
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