The Gender and SES Context of Weight-Loss Dieting Among Adolescent Females

This study sought to establish whether differences in gender-based (coeducational versus single-sex school) and socioeconomic status-based (working-middle versus upper-middle class) contexts would be associated with differences in dieting status among female adolescents. A second goal was to determine whether those differences would be independent of body mass index (BMI). Girls attending four separate high schools completed the Dieting Status Measure (DiSM; StrongH the reverse was true for serious dieters (those who often or always diet). Body mass index was found to interact with those effects. Specifically, girls in the normal range were less lik...