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Time Use Profiles, Chronic Role Overload, and Women’s Body Weight Trajectories from Middle to Later Life

Mon, August 13, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, 113A

Abstract

Although chronic life strain is often found to be associated with adverse health outcomes, empirical research is lacking on the impact of persistent role overload that many women around the world are subject to, the so-called “double burden” of work and family responsibilities. Using data from Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Study (1994-2012), we examine the linkage between time use profiles (represented by a four-class typology) and BMI (body mass index) trajectories for Filipino women over an eighteen-year span. Out of the four classes of women with differential levels of combination of work and family duties, the group with the heaviest double burden has the highest average of BMI. In addition, those who have remained in this class for three or more waves of the data not only have higher BMI on average but also have experienced the steepest rate of increase in BMI when they transition from mid-life to old age.

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