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Assari S. Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks' Diminished Returns. Womens Health Bull. 2019;6(3)doi: 10.5812/whb.87413.
Assari, S. (2019). Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks' Diminished Returns. Women's health bulletin, 6(3), . https://doi.org/10.5812/whb.87413
Assari, Shervin. "Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks' Diminished Returns." Women's health bulletin vol. 6,3 (2019). doi: https://doi.org/10.5812/whb.87413
Assari S. Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks' Diminished Returns. Womens Health Bull. 2019 Jul;6(3). doi: 10.5812/whb.87413. Epub 2019 Sep 04. PMID: 31552286; PMCID: PMC6757331.
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Womens Health Bull. 2019 Jul;6(3). doi: 10.5812/whb.87413. Epub 2019 Sep 04.

Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks' Diminished Returns.

Women's health bulletin

Shervin Assari

Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, USA.
  2. Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.

PMID: 31552286 PMCID: PMC6757331 DOI: 10.5812/whb.87413

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDRs) refer to smaller protects health effects of socioeconomic status (SES) indicators for Blacks and other minority groups than Whites.

OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to explore Black- White differences in the association between educational attainment and exercise frequency among women in the US.

METHODS: For the current study, we used the National Survey of American Life's (NSAL) data which included 3,175 women who were either White (

RESULTS: In the overall sample of women, high educational attainment was associated with higher exercise frequency (b = 0.07, 95% CI = 0.02-0.12). Race and educational attainment showed a significant interaction (b = -0.09, 95% CI = -0.19-0.00), suggestive of a smaller effect of education attainment on exercise frequency for Black women than White women. In race specific models, high educational attainment was associated with higher exercise frequency for White (b = 0.12, 95% CI =0.04-0.20) but not Black (b = 0.03, 95% CI = -0.03-0.08) women.

CONCLUSION: In line with the past research on MDRs, White women gain more health from their educational attainment than Black women. It is not race or class but race and class that shape the health behaviors of American women.

Keywords: African-American; Blacks; education; ethnicity; exercise; physical activity; population groups; race; socioeconomic status

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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