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A Study On The Relationship Between Self - Body Image Cognition And Physical Exercise Participation Of Female College Students In Yunnan Province

Posted on:2016-01-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207330479951946Subject:Social sports guidance
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Body Image is subjective recognition and comment. It involves individual attitude toward his body, especially his or her appearance. In modern society, people concern their Image more than ever. Slim Image with energy has been regarded as a symbol of modern women in recent years. Females students most of them are university or college students, during this time, the concept of " individuality" comes into being weight the beauty of their Images more than others. University students should not be anxious about overweight, nor diet for slim. It’s better for them to treat their bodies normally. In recent days, scholars from sports and psychology have done researches to show how exercise impacts on body Image. But the passed researches mainly put an eye on influence of certain exercise, the researchers didn’t reach to female university students who lack sport training.This essay is concerned about the relation between individual recognition toward body Image of female university students and their attitude toward taking activities. The samples include 462 females’ students from Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Art University. The author randomly picked students majored in different subjects as respondents. The author analyzed investigation results through thorough survey of female students’ recognition of their own Images and frequency of taking discipline. Besides, the author also decoded relation between certain activities and females’ students. This essay aims to offer effective methods and stimulate new ideas to wake up the awareness of female students to do more exercise.The results of the study were as follows:(1) Females students’ ideal weight and the ideal BMI is lower than the actual BMI, while they expect themselves higher, they expect thinner they are. The characteristics of the females student’ body Image are: Females students of their body Image are in the upper level, they are much positive of evaluating their body Image. Mainly manifested in two aspects of evaluation and satisfaction of parts of the body appearance and the main table appearance attitude is low. The most satisfied parts of the body are face and hair; and the most unsatisfied body parts are the lower half of the body, weight, height and the waist abdomen.(2) There are exist differences in various professional female body Image self-knowledge, in terms of appearance evaluation, professional sports girls have a higher appearance evaluation of themselves, the following are by the art professional girls, there are fewer differences between liberal arts and sciences girls. In terms of appearance evaluation, arts girls have the most negative evaluation, and the professional girls have the most positive evaluation. In terms of appearance concern, the art girls are more concentrate on their appearance than the sports girls.(3) College females students have the highest percentage of excising, large amount of exercise is slightly higher than the small amount of exercise. The excising time is focused on 20-59 minutes, the exercising intensity is concentrated in small and medium, the exercising frequency has the highest percentage of 1-2 times a week.(4) Physical exercise participation levels and body image variance analysis results indicate that the different physical exercise time, frequency, intensity in appearance evaluation, focus on appearance, body parts exist significant differences on the satisfaction. Often take part in physical exercise, keep the moderate intensity, time and above, three times a week for 30 minutes or more, can improve the individual self-awareness and evaluation to the body. With large amount of exercise and little physical exercise, compared to the amount of exercise in the exercise amount of physical exercise participation in a more positive influence on female college students’ body Image.(5) Female college students’ body Image and physical exercise participation level was significantly correlated. In evaluation dimensions with looking into positive correlation, negative correlation in appearance attitude this dimension. In parts of the body satisfaction is not obvious.
Keywords/Search Tags:college female students, body Image, sports excising
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