A Study of Factors Influencing Young Women’s Losing Weight：The Case of Netizens in the Baidu Tieba

• Main Authors: Jing-ting Chang, 張靜婷
• Other Authors: Chao-Neng Chan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b2pgz9

碩士 === 世新大學 === 社會心理學研究所(含碩專班) === 102 === Losing weight is a hot issue in our society among young women ,and internet is the most popular medium for communication thesedays . The topic discussions on the Chinese internet forum "Baidu Tieba: Weight-Loss Bar " were chosen to explore how body image、self-identity and interpersonal relationship affect young women’s losing weight and their self-concept. For the text analysis, 8 subjects, aged 15-28, were invited , and 5 of them having complete text lists were ultimately selected . The result has shown the impact of young women they are more likely to compare with their peers、movie stars and strangers in regard to their ideal figure. Losing weight can reinforce self-identity. Being aware of the social values in terms of the standard of beauty, whether the young women approve it or not, they would be led to lose weight. Furthermore, interpersonal relationship, self-body image has stronger impact than the opinions of others . In reality, teasing about young female's body could trigger the weight-loss behavior while weight- related compliments wouldn’t stop their losing weight. As for cyber peers ,they can only reinforce the case’s original losing weight intent and behavior, but can’t change their belief. Finally, some limits of the study were addressed and suggestion were perposed for follow up studies.