Gender, body size and social relations in American high schools.

From: Social Forces | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

To investigate the role of body size in social networks, this study estimated cross-nested multilevel network models ([P.sub.2]) with longitudinal data from the 16 saturated schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. As body mass index increased, the likelihood of being nominated by schoolmates as friends--but not the likelihood of nominating others as friends-decreased. This trend was more pronounced among girls. Moreover, similarity in body mass index strongly predicted friendship formation. These findings were not explained by correlates (e.g., academic achievement) ...

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