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Adolescents’ Perspectives on Personal and Societal Responsibility for Childhood Obesity — The Study of Beliefs through ‘Serious’ Game (PlayDecide)
Author(s) -
Timotijevic Lada,
AcunaRivera Marcela,
Gemen Raymond,
Kugelberg Susanna,
McBarron Kate,
Raats Monique M.,
Zolotonosa Maria
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12271
Subject(s) - moral responsibility , childhood obesity , framing (construction) , obesity , social responsibility , citizen journalism , public health , psychology , social psychology , public relations , sociology , political science , medicine , overweight , law , nursing , structural engineering , engineering
The dominant approaches to public health policy on childhood obesity are based on the neoliberal emphasis of personal choice and individual responsibility. We study adolescents’ ( N = 81) beliefs about responsibility for childhood obesity as a public health issue, through an innovative participatory method, PlayDecide, organised in two countries: the UK and Spain. There is no evidence of a blanket rejection of individual responsibility, rather, a call for renegotiation of the values that inform adolescents’ food choices. The findings suggest the need to broaden the framing of obesity‐related policy to go beyond the nutritional paradigm and include other values that signal health.