Dancesport Students Study The Physical Self And The Relationship Between Self-acceptance

Physical self-satisfaction means whether one is satisfied with himself and the degree of his satisfaction. It includes appearance, athletic ability, figure and so on. It is a study of the emotional level of physical self which belongs to the category of self-esteem. Self acceptance refers to the individual's psychological acceptance and evaluation of himself and it is an important component of self-consciousness. Dance Sport, also called International style of Ballroomdancing, has another name:social dancing. Dance Sport has two big series:Modern Dance and Latin dance, it has developed rapidly since 2001 in China.Physical self has become a hot research area domestically in recent years, but many studies were focused in sports domain, relative psychological research were not enough. An empirical investigation aimed at physical self-satisfaction, self acceptance and self-esteem was launched in which University students majored in Dance Sport and ordinary majors were tested.Questionnaire was adopted and they were demography questionnaire, physical self satisfaction scale for youth, self-acceptance questionnaire and the self-esteem scale. The responses of university students majored in Dance Sport and ordinary majors on these scales were inspected, their differences and correlations were compared. The physical self satisfaction was regarded as independent variables, the self-acceptance and the self-esteem were regarded as dependent variables respectively, the data was analyzed with multiple regression analysis.The differences of university students majored in Dance Sport and ordinary majors on physical self satisfaction, self acceptance and self-esteem were compared, the conclusions were:1. In general, the most important body mass index for college students were:height, figure, constitution, weight, eyes. There were high agreement between students majored in Dance Sport and not majored, between different grades and genders of students majored in Dance Sport, between different genders of students not majored in Dance Sport, their correlations were significant. 2. The proportion of being underweight of students majored in Dance Sport in real BMI (Body Mass Index) and ideal BMI were higher than ordinary group. There was significant professional difference in ideal BMI. It showed that more stringent requirements of body were used for students majored in Dance Sport.3. The physical self-satisfaction of students majored in Dance Sport were higher than students not majored in Dance Sport. The physical self-satisfaction for boys were higher than girls.4. There was not significant difference between self acceptance and self-esteem for students majored in Dance Sport and students not majored in Dance Sport.5. There was significant positive correlation between physical self-satisfaction and self acceptance for students majored in Dance Sport and students not majored in Dance Sport.6. There was significant positive correlation between self-esteem and self acceptance, between self-esteem and physical self-satisfaction.7. Motion satisfaction of students majored in Dance Sport was a good predictor to self acceptance and self-esteem. Motion satisfaction and facial features were good predictors to self acceptance and self-esteem.The research about the structure of self-esteem and the theory of self acceptance should be strengthened in future.