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来源类型 | Journal articles or issues |
规范类型 | 其他 |
Do restrictive gender attitudes and norms influence physical and mental health during very young adolescence? Evidence from Bangladesh and Ethiopia | |
Sarah Baird; Zulfiqar A.Bhuttab; Bassam Abu Hamad; Joan Hamory-Hicks; Nicola Jones and Jennifer Muz | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Journal article analysing the association between restrictive gender attitudes and norms and physical and mental health in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. |
摘要 | Adolescence is seen as a window of opportunity for intervention but also as a time during which restrictive gender attitudes and norms become more salient. This increasingly gendered world has the potential to profoundly influence adolescents’ capabilities, including their physical and mental health. Using quantitative data on 6,500 young adolescents (10–12) from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, this paper analyses the association between both restrictive gender attitudes (RGAs) at the individual level and restrictive gender norms (RGNs) at the community level and physical and mental health in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. We find significant associations between RGAs and RGNs and height-for-age z-scores, body mass index z-scores, self-reported health, adolescent hunger, psychological well-being and self-esteem. We find no relationship between RGAs or RGNs and illness. We also find heterogeneity across country and urbanicity. We find surprisingly limited variation by gender, and the differences we do see point to important vulnerabilities for both boys and girls. Our results point to the powerful role that distal factors such as culture and beliefs, as manifested through RGAs and RGNs, can play in shaping health outcomes for both boys and girls and suggest important next steps for future research and policy. |
主题 | gender ; mental health ; adolescent girls ; Bangladesh ; Ethiopia |
URL | https://www.odi.org/publications/16565-do-restrictive-gender-attitudes-and-norms-influence-physical-and-mental-health-during-very-young |
来源智库 | Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/510442 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sarah Baird,Zulfiqar A.Bhuttab,Bassam Abu Hamad,et al. Do restrictive gender attitudes and norms influence physical and mental health during very young adolescence? Evidence from Bangladesh and Ethiopia. 2019. |
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