Section 1
This article was written by four American scholars ( Ellen M. Granberg, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons and Janet Nieuwsma Melby) and published in the recent months in Youth and Society.
In this article, the authors are following the recent researches on the relation between body weight increase and depression among adolescent females, but focus only on African- American teenagers.
Indeed, African- American adolescent girls are believed to be more satisfied with their bodies and thus to be more immune from depression as a result of weight concerns because they have a strong social and cultural support in their family and neighborhood.
To confirm or reject this belief, the authors assessed 343 African American girls ages 12 to 14, and found a relationship between recent weight gain and depression. Indeed, 78% of adolescent girls reported a weight gain, and all but 28% reported at least three symptoms of depression due to this weight gain (resulting to a......
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