編者薦語
本次推薦的是我院人口研究所博士研究生李瑤玥與其導師王桂新發表於《Social Science & Medicine》雜誌的文章《Educational attainment of offspring and obesity among older adults in China》👩🏽🦰。
中英文簡介
肥胖正成為威脅中國老年人健康的重要風險性因素🌅。盡管眾多研究認為，較高受教育程度的子女能夠從多維度改善和提高老年父母的健康水平🌋，但尚未發現關註子女受教育程度是否影響老年父母肥胖風險的文獻。本文試圖研究子女受教育程度對老年父母肥胖風險的影響，分析年齡和出生隊列因素的調節效應。
本文利用中國健康與營養調查1993-2015年縱向追蹤數據，具體考察了同住成年子女受教育程度對1956年以前出生老年人BMI🧑🦯、超重風險、腰圍和中心型肥胖風險的影響。研究發現，在控製其他混雜因素後🐯，子女受教育程度對老年男性BMI和超重風險具有倒U模式影響🐔，對老年女性呈積極影響；子女教育與老年男性和女性腰圍的影響也呈現倒U模式，但並不顯著影響老年人中心型肥胖風險🕐。進一步對調節效應的分析顯示，子女教育對老年父母肥胖風險的影響存在年齡和出生隊列差異🤸🏽♀️。子女受教育程度越高💈，較早出生隊列老年人的肥胖風險越高；但在較晚出生隊列中🛍，子女教育的影響效應發生“逆轉”，即子女受教育程度高的老年人的肥胖風險較低，且其與子女受教育程度低的老年人的肥胖風險差異隨年齡增長持續擴大♊️；這種逆轉現象在女性中尤為明顯。研究結果表明，在連續出生隊列中，子女教育正逐漸演變為中國老年人肥胖的保護性因素🤷🏿♂️🏋🏻♂️。
The study focuses on the role of adult offspring's educational attainment in obesity among older adults in China and investigates age and birth cohort heterogeneities in the educational effect. Using the longitudinal data from the 1993–2015 China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we employed three-level mixed-effects models and conducted sex-stratified analyses to examine the effects of co-resident offspring's education on body mass index (BMI), overweight, waist circumference (WC), and abdominal obesity among older people born before 1956. After controlling for confounding factors, the overall results showed inverted U-shaped educational gradients in BMI-based outcomes for males and positive gradients for females. The effect of education on WC exhibited an inverted U-shaped pattern for both sexes, but no significant effect on abdominal obesity was found among the overall population. However, further analyses of interaction effects indicated considerable age and cohort variations in the educational effects on obesity outcomes. Offspring's schooling was positively associated with obesity among earlier birth cohorts; Among more recent birth cohorts, especially among females, the educational effects were reversed, and disparities in obesity outcomes across education categories strengthened with age. These findings imply that offspring's education appears to gradually exert a protective role against obesity among Chinese older adults in successive cohorts.
原文概覽
查看如下鏈接，可以閱讀文章全文：https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621006572
原文信息
Li Y, Wang G, Li G. Educational attainments of offspring and obesity of older adults in China. Social Science & Medicine.2021Vol.286. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114325.
作者簡介
王桂新
◇意昂3体育特聘教授、社會學學位委員會主席🦵🏽、博士生導師
◇意昂3体育城市與區域發展研究中心主任
◇中國人口學會副會長🔁、中國區域科學協會副理事長等多個學術兼職
◇先後兼任日本廣島大學、華東師範大學🤳、中國人民大學和上海社會科意昂3兼職教授
◇學術影響力顯著🤱🏿：長安大學《中國社會科學（人口學）最有影響力學者排行榜》排名第一；上海交大城市科學研究院“城市科學發展趨勢與科研實力排名研究”評價💂🏿♀️：第一作者發文量位列全國第八、引用率全國第二🦝。百度學術H指數💆🏻♂️🚴🏽♀️：46🛂，同領域國內領先。
李瑤玥
李瑤玥🦊，意昂3体育人口研究所博士研究生，師從王桂新教授。目前的研究領域包括人口健康、人口遷移與城市化、生育意願等。