The "Bigger" Negative Impact? Weight Status: It’s Possible Effect on Adolescent's Academic Performance

• Main Authors: Chen, Yiting, 陳奕廷
• Other Authors: Chen, Wanchi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71868896377737208855

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 99 === Weight status is a health condition, but its consequences extend far beyond the realm of health. To illuminate an important route by which the experience of weight status can filter into the status attainment process. This study uses TEPS(Taiwan Education Panel Survey) to explore whether weight status(underweight or obesity) is a possible effect on adolescent's academic performance? and why weight status could affect adolescent's academic performance? The sample which we used is the student who had studied in senior high school, vocational high school and 5-Year Junior College. Results show that (1) Obesity has a negative impact on academic performance, obese girls and boys both have poor academic performance at school, the negative influence of obesity has no gender difference. (2) Obese girls may have poor academic performance through some family and school factors, such as lower parental educational expectations, the bias and discrimination by peers and teachers. The family and school are two sphere where obese people also may be vulnerable to discriminatory attitudes and fat bias. (3) The negative influence of obesity by adolescent appears to have increased from 2003 to 2007, that may explain the requirements of the body become more stringent, stigmatization of obesity also increase. (4) The influence of underweight on academic performance is not stable, we need more data or information to analysis the "underweight effect".