Feel American, Watch American, Eat American? Remote Acculturation, TV, and Nutrition Among Adolescent-Mother Dyads in Jamaica

Globalization prompts remote acculturation toward U.S. culture in Jamaica; this study used a bioecological systems approach to examine its proximal impact on nutrition through U.S. cable TV consumption, and maternal influences in the home. Overall, 330 randomly selected adolescent-mother dyads from...

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Published inChild development Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 1360 - 1377
Main Authors Ferguson, Gail M., Muzaffar, Henna, Iturbide, Maria I., Chu, Hui, Gardner, Julie Meeks
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley for the Society for Research in Child Development 01.07.2018
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Acculturation
Adolescents
Behavior
Cable television
Consumption
Daughters
Dyads
Eating behavior
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Girls
Globalization
Healthy food
Identity
Interdependence
Mothers
Nutrition
Questionnaires
Systems approach
Television
Jamaica
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Summary:Globalization prompts remote acculturation toward U.S. culture in Jamaica; this study used a bioecological systems approach to examine its proximal impact on nutrition through U.S. cable TV consumption, and maternal influences in the home. Overall, 330 randomly selected adolescent-mother dyads from schools in Kingston, Jamaica (Madolescent_age = 13.8 years, SDadoiescent_age = 1.8) completed questionnaires reporting American identity and behavioral preferences, daily time spent watching U.S.-produced TV programs, and frequency of eating unhealthy foods. Actor-partner interdependence models revealed that girls' American identity/behavior directly predicted their unhealthy eating, whereas girls' mothers and boys' American identity/behavior indirectly predicted unhealthy eating as mediated by their U.S. TV hours. Additionally, mothers' American identity/behavior predicted daughters' unhealthy eating as mediated by mothers' U.S. TV hours. Remote acculturation theory may facilitate more targeted research and prevention/intervention.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.12808