Adolescent Obesity: A Barrier to Mate Selection?

Florence Neymotin; Teresa Downing-Matibag

doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000157

Adolescent Obesity: A Barrier to Mate Selection?

Florence Neymotin
, Teresa Downing-Matibag

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Abstract

The obesity epidemic is a barrier to the participation of adolescents in developmentally normative behaviors associated with mate selection, such as dating. Notably, the obesity stigma has important implications for the socioemotional development of adolescents in the realms of intimacy and peer acceptance, as well as for their future chances of marriage and healthy relationships.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Volume	2
Issue number	04
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4494.1000157
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

Keywords

Dating
Obesity
Social stigma

Disciplines

Business

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