Publications by authors named "Julia M P Bittner"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how children's perceptions of their social and socioeconomic status (subjective status) affect feelings of fullness (satiation) and hunger (satiety) after eating.
- It found that children with lower subjective social status (SSS) feel less satiated after eating and report higher hunger levels over the next 90 minutes.
- The findings suggest that experiencing low subjective status might dull feelings of fullness, potentially leading to overeating and higher body mass in children and adolescents.
Socioeconomic mobility, metabolic health, and diet: mediation via subjective socioeconomic status.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
November 2024
Objective: Socioeconomic mobility, i.e., changing socioeconomic status (SES) between adolescence and adulthood, may impact health through changing resources, social status, and health-related behaviors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubjective status is the evaluation of one's social or socioeconomic status relative to others. Lower subjective status has been associated with risk of overweight/obesity, poorer metabolic health, and obesogenic food preferences and eating behaviors. However, these findings are predominantly based on studies of adolescents and young adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Low social standing and teasing are independently associated with increased body mass index (BMI) and overeating in children. However, children with low social status may be vulnerable to teasing.
Methods: We tested the statistical interaction of subjective social status (SSS) and subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) and teasing distress on BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) in children (Mage = 13.
Article Synopsis
- Subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) and objective socioeconomic status (OSES) independently influence children's body composition and eating behaviors, with low OSES limiting access to healthy foods and low SSES driving preference for high-energy foods.
- A study analyzed data from the Children's Growth and Behavior Study to explore how SSES and OSES relate to children's BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and eating behaviors like hyperphagia.
- Results showed that low SSES is linked to more severe hyperphagia, particularly in children from lower OSES households, highlighting the need for future research on how these socioeconomic factors interact to affect children's health.
Purpose: Low early-life absolute and relative socioeconomic status (SES) may contribute to socioeconomic disparities in pregnancy complications (i.e., gestational diabetes mellitus [GDM], preeclampsia/eclampsia [PE], hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [HDP; preeclampsia/eclampsia, gestational hypertension, chronic hypertension]), but their independent associations with pregnancy complications have not been studied.
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