Art Students Body Status Of Body Image And Relationship With The Mental Health Research

Body image is multidimensional self-attitude of an individual to its body, particularly to size, shape and aesthetic feeling of body, including cognitive, evaluating and behavior intent. Body image is one of the vital impacts upon people's mental health. Negative body image produces a series of mental problems to individual, such as anxiety, self-contempt, depression, crankiness etc..Studies about body image have been 50 years and have developed systemic theory and mature research instrument in west, but in China, studies in this area have just been started. Studies about body image, the mental health status and the relationship between them of the undergraduate are scarce. The research is completed with undergraduates in art and in physical education, who tend to have a closer body-self relation. Because body image is one of the vital impacts upon mental health of the undergraduate in art and in physical education, the study of the body image status and the relationship between the body image and mental health of the undergraduates in art and in physical education is a new topic in the whole field.This study has been conducted by employing the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire, SCL-90, as the main research instrument to detect the body image and mental health of the undergraduate in 5 colleges in Sichuan. These undergraduate are including majoring art and physical education, liberal arts, science, engineering. 4 art and physical education students. We divided the undergraduate into art students, physical education students, the students majoriny in other subjects. The results showed that:1) Body image status of the art students were distinctly worse than the students'majoriny in physical education and other subjects, body image status of physical education students were the most positive.2)The differences are significant in mental health of three groups students , the mental health status of art students are the worst, physical education students'are the best.3 ) The differences were significant in gender on body image of undergraduates in art and physical education, and were significant in gender on mental health too.4)This study found that gender and exercise had main effect on body image of art and physical education students and had an interactive effect.5)The body image and the mental health status of undergraduates in art and physical education were significantly related.6)The regression analysis revealed that body image was significant predictors of mental health especially to depression of mental health.