Research On The Negative Body Image Of Higher Vocational Students

In this paper, the Negative Physical Self Scale-Face (NPSS-FACE), and the Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT) on body image of appearance were used to explore the vocational students implicit attitude and explicit attitude differences towards body image of appearance, the study includes two parts:Study I:Investigation on vocational students'body image of appearance by questionnaire. Negative Physical Self Scale-Face edited by Hong Chen is used to test 550 vocational college students, and 472 valid data is obtained. The results showed that:(l)The overall satisfaction of body image of appearance of vocational students is higher. (2) The body image of appearance of vocational students is significantly different in specialty and grade, but not significantly in gender and region difference. As for profession, liberal arts students are more negative than science students; for the grade, third grade was significantly higher than first grade, second grade and fourth grade about body image satisfaction of vocational students. (3) Vocational Students body image show no significant differences in gender and origin.Study ?:Implicit research on vocational students'body image of appearance.60 school vocational students as subjects, taking the Single category Implicit Association Test and a 2 (group:positive group and negative group)× 2 (gender:male, female) two-factor mixed design. The results showed that:(1) The tested subjects appear negative implicit attitudes on body image of appearance, indicating that the subjects have negative implicit cognition on body image of appearance. (2) There are significant gender differences in body image appearance. Boys and girls show negative attentional bias, and girls are more passive than boys.From the above two researches, the following conclusions can be drawn:(1) The explicit survey shows that the overall satisfaction of body image of appearance of vocational students is higher. The vocational students significantly differ from professional grade differences in the body image of appearance, but not significantly in gender and region difference. As for profession, liberal arts students are more negative than science students; for the grade, third grade was significantly higher than first grade, second grade and fourth grade about body image satisfaction of vocational students. (2) The tested subjects appear negative implicit attitudes on body image of appearance, indicating that the subjects have negative implicit cognition on body image of appearance. (3) There are significant gender differences in body image of appearance. Boys and girls show negative attentional bias, and girls are more passive than boys.