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

• Published in: Child 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
• Language: English
• 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; United States > US

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...