A Study on Body Image and Dietary Behavior of Junior High School Students --- Take a Junior High School in Taoyuan City

• Main Authors: YIN, LAN, 尹蘭
• Other Authors: HO, LI-HSING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rw5jwg

碩士 === 中華大學 === 科技管理學系 === 106 === According to Eriksson's role integration of psychosocial theory, teenagers focusing on the self-images and their appearances become the indicators for being confidnet and getting along with friends. Do teenagers who are in the critical stage for body growing have good diet habits in this era with various take-away foods? Do they restrict their diet because of being unsatisfied with their body image? The research mainly focuses on discussing about junior high students on body images and diet behaviors. Comparing the results of differences between with individual living backgrounds and analyzing the related factors of junior high students on body images and diet habits. The document is a survey technique about the scales of body images and diet behaviors. The data is collected through stratified random sampling of a junior high school group. The study randomly of which 424 copies were effectively retrieved and thus the effective retrieving ratio is 95% and all data are analyzed and presented through frequency distribution, percentage number, standard deviation, t-test, one-way analysis of variance and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results are as following: 1. More than average percentage of students are satisfied with their self-images and has positive affirmations. The highest raitng is about ‘Apperance ’and ‘Hair-style’, and the lowest raing is ‘Self-identity.’ 2. More than average percentage of students are satisfied with their diet behaviors and have positive affirmations. The higest score is ‘Regular meals’ 3. Results about body image, there is significant data about ‘Gender’, ‘Actual BMI’, ‘Self-conscious body type’ and ‘Educational level of mother’, and no obvious related information about ‘Grade ’ and ‘Educational level of father.’ 4. Results about diet behaviors, there is significant data about ‘Gender’, ‘Grade’ and ‘Self-conscious body type’ but no prominent factors about ‘Educational level of father and mother. 5. The relation of body images and diet behaviors presents negative correlation. It shows that the higher level students are unsatisfied with their body image, the better diet behaviors they have. The conclusion provides suggestions for school administration, teacher and parents about management, development and teaching and discusses the further directions for future researches.