Weight, gender, and depressive symptoms in <scp>S</scp>outh <scp>K</scp>orea

Brewis, Alexandra; Han, Seung Yong; SturtzSreetharan, Cindi

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“…Obesity was positively associated with having inappropriately short sleep duration in both men and women, while statistically significant association between weight status and sleep quality was not detected in both genders. Previous studies reported gender differences in overweight/obesity and sleep problems [60][61][62]. In general, male college students have higher prevalence of overweight/obesity compared to their female counterparts in both the U.S. [60] and Korea [61].…”

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“…Previous studies reported gender differences in overweight/obesity and sleep problems [60][61][62]. In general, male college students have higher prevalence of overweight/obesity compared to their female counterparts in both the U.S. [60] and Korea [61]. In contrast, female college students are more likely to experience sleep problems than their male counterparts in both countries [62,63].…”

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Relationship between sleep and obesity among U.S. and South Korean college students

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Cho

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Background:Little is known about the relationship between sleep and obesity in young adults, particularly college students. This study examined the relationship between sleep (i.e., sleep duration and quality) and obesity in a large and diverse binational sample of college students. Methods: Analyses were based on a 40-item paper survey from 2016/2017 to 2017/2018 academic years, with a 72% response rate. The samples were 1578 college students aged 18-25 years from five universities (two in the U.S. and three in South Korea). Weight and height were measured objectively; other measures (e.g., health behaviors) were self-reported. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the association between sleep duration and independent variables (race/nationality, gender, and BMI). Poisson regression was used to examine the relationship between sleep quality and independent variables. Results: Overall, blacks had a higher adjusted odds ratio (AOR) of short sleep (< 7 h/night) than whites (AOR = 1.74, P < .01); overweight participants had a higher AOR of short sleep than normal weight participants (AOR = 1.52, P < .01); and obese participants had a higher AORs of both short and long sleep (> 9 h/night) (AOR = 1.67, P < .01; AOR = 1.79, P < .05, respectively). Among men, being black, overweight, and obesity were associated with short sleep (P < .05), whereas only obesity was related to short sleep among women (P < .05). In analyses stratified by race and nationality, overweight and obesity were related to short sleep among blacks only (P < .05). Overall, sleep quality (getting enough sleep to feel rested in the morning in the past 7 days) was worse in blacks and South Koreans than whites (P < .05), worse in women than men (P < .05), and worse in participants with obesity than normal weight participants (P < .05). Conclusions: Obesity was associated with both short (< 7 h/night) and long sleep duration (> 9 h/night) and poor sleep quality among all participants. In comparison with whites, blacks were more like to have short sleep, and blacks and South Koreans had worse sleep quality. Further investigations using a larger sample of college students in multiple countries may be helpful to identify target populations who are at a greater risk of obesity and sleep problems.

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Relationship between sleep and obesity among U.S. and South Korean college students

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BMC Public Health

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“…Japan is a high-income, developed country, whereas South Korea and Taiwan are high-income developing countries and China is an upper-middle-income developing county [ 18 , 20 ]. People feel pressured by adhering to social norms of being ‘thin’ and stressed by weight-related stigma as the country has advanced [ 21 – 23 ]. Stigma in weight ultimately led to more negative physical and psychological health outcomes [ 21 – 23 ].…”

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“…People feel pressured by adhering to social norms of being ‘thin’ and stressed by weight-related stigma as the country has advanced [ 21 – 23 ]. Stigma in weight ultimately led to more negative physical and psychological health outcomes [ 21 – 23 ]. Recent studies found that stigma against weight (“anti-fat cultural context [ 21 ]”) was extremely high in South Korea [ 21 , 24 – 26 ] and Japan [ 27 , 28 ], but Chinese were more tolerant about overweight/obesity [ 9 , 24 , 29 , 30 ].…”

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Body mass index and self-rated health in East Asian countries: Comparison among South Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan

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There have been conflicting findings regarding the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and self-rated health (SRH) worldwide. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between BMI and SRH by comparing its relationship in four East Asian countries: South Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan. Using data from the East Asian Social Survey, the relationship between weight status and SRH status was investigated and compared between four countries, China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. An ordinal logit regression model was estimated for each country, and the results were compared. We found that the relationship between weight status and SRH status differed across the four countries. In China, people who were overweight reported better SRH scores than those of normal weight, whereas in Japan, obese and severely obese people reported poor scores. In contrast, South Koreans who were underweight, obese, or severely obese reported poor ratings of health status than those of normal weight. In Taiwan, however, no differences in respondents’ weight status were found across SRH scores. There were notable differences in the relationship between BMI and SRH status in four East Asian countries. Individual countries should consider these relationships when designing and implementing obesity intervention programs.

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“…For comparison, 38.3% of men and 41.6% of women in the U.S. in the same year and 31.5% of men and 29.3% of women in Australia in 2017 were estimated to be clinically obese in the same year (data available at http://stats.oecd.org). Yet, despite the extremely low population levels of obesityor perhaps even because of it -anti-fat sentiment is reportedly now rampant in South Korea (Marini et al, 2013;Brewis et al, 2017;Noh et al, 2018). It is common to notice disparaging treatment of people with obesity in Korean media (Lim and Kim, 2012).…”

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Unraveling Historical Trends of Increasing Large-body Dissatisfaction: Disentangling Age-period-cohort Using the Case of South Korea

Han¹,

SturtzSreetharan²,

Brewis³

2020

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BackgroundOver the last two decades, body dissatisfaction appears to have increased globally, particularly concerns about being “fat”. These increasingly negative large-body norms reflect the intersections of complex socio-cultural phenomena. A range of anthropological theories derived from ethnographic observations across the globe have posited that both changing socioeconomics and internet exposures have increasingly commodified the value of the body in social advancement – especially for women. MethodsUsing demographic data, here we provide a first attempt to explore the sheer effects of individual (i.e., age) and contextual factors (i.e., period and cohort) on body dissatisfaction by using the Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort (HAPC-CCREM) approach, with a particular emphasis on period effects of internet expansion and macro-economic shifts. The data are drawn from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) collected repeatedly over the period of 2001 to 2017. ResultsThe results show a higher level of body dissatisfaction among Korean women compared to men. Overall period effects indicate a significant increase in the level of body dissatisfaction in the early 2000s, particularly related to increased social media exposure. Although no overall cohort effect was found, early cohorts tend to have a substantial gap in body dissatisfaction levels when examined by socioeconomic status: those with high SES (people with college education and high household income) exhibit a high level of body dissatisfaction and those with low SES exhibit a low level of body dissatisfaction, but over time these begin to converge. ConclusionsThe results suggest a particular role for internet exposure, rather than labor market shifts, in increasing negative classifications of the person’s own body as unacceptably big.

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Weight, gender, and depressive symptoms in South Korea

Cited by 40 publications

References 49 publications

Relationship between sleep and obesity among U.S. and South Korean college students

Relationship between sleep and obesity among U.S. and South Korean college students

Body mass index and self-rated health in East Asian countries: Comparison among South Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan

Unraveling Historical Trends of Increasing Large-body Dissatisfaction: Disentangling Age-period-cohort Using the Case of South Korea

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