| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 105 === Abstract
In the past, researchers about body imagery were mostly discussing the impacts to female behaviors brought by obesity, the size of body or dissatisfaction of his / her figure. The researches using “Height” as the main subject are comparatively rare. Consequently, we not only compared the results of past researches which were using weight or body figure as the main subject with ours, we also focused on discussing the “height” body imagery of college students. Besides, it is rarely to analyze the relationship between weight, height, BMI and body imagery with respect to different gender in previous researches. So another objective of our research is to conduct a deeper comparison and discussion with the factors we mentioned. As for the actual height distribution and weight distribution, ideal height distribution and weight distribution and how does the difference between ideal and actual BMI affect college student’s body imagery are also included.
Our research showed that:
Firstly, no matter in height, weight or figure aspects, male college students are more satisfied than their female counterpart.
Secondly, male and female college students are not satisfied with their body. Male college students hope to be 4.61 kg heavier, 6.2 cm taller and be much stronger. Female college students hope to be 3.63 kg thinner, 3.86 cm taller and be much curvier.
Thirdly, height satisfaction of male college students is proportional to their height. The shortest group least satisfied their height, on the contrast, the tallest group satisfied most their height. Although satisfaction of female college students is also proportional, the statistics differ slightly. There isn’t significant difference. When it reaches 172cm the satisfaction surprisingly drops.
Fourthly, when it comes to male, the highest satisfaction group BMI falls into the range of 23~25. On the other hand, the group falling into the range below 18.5 shows the lowest satisfaction. Regard to female, the highest satisfaction group BMI falls into the range below 18.5. The group falling into the range below 25 shows the lowest satisfaction.
At last, reasonably, if their height, weight, and BMI happen to match their ideal ones, they’ll possess the highest satisfaction.
|
|---|
