Research Of Weight Image And Exercise Behavior Among College Students Between Zhejiang And Taiwan

Weight Image is a dimension of body image, it refers to a self-evaluation about weight and weight-related characteristics for people. As a factor which influence body image, exercise behavior also affects weight image. Previous studies mostly focused on body image research, and weight image rarely be studied separately. This study focused on college students between Taiwan and Zhejiang, dealing with the difference about weight image-related dimension, discussing the relationship between exercise behavior and weight image.This object of this study is students selected from Zhejiang Normal University and Kaohsiung University, by using test subjects of multidimensional body-self relation questionnaire, outline drawing of arrays and exercise behavior scale, totally recovered 922 effective questionnaires. The results as follows:Zhejiang and Taiwan students have similar percentage of normal BMI value and lower expected weight. The number of male with higher expected weight at Zhejiang is more than Taiwan; Both of them has more percentage of student with the expectation of loss weight, and exercise is their first choice. For both of objects at Taiwan and Zhejiang, No.4 arid 5 are the major choice of self-report body image, and No.3,4 and 5 are the major of expected body image.The weight image was significantly associated with gender at Taiwan’s objects, the real BMI can affect object’s expected BMI, some elements including overweight preoccupation, weight satisfaction areas and self-report body image had no effect on expected body image. Exercise behavior and age had no significant effects on weight image of Taiwan’s objects.The weight image was significantly associated with gender at Zhejiang’s objects, the real BMI can affect object’s expected BMI, some elements including overweight preoccupation, weight satisfaction areas and self-report body image had no effect on expected body image. Exercise behavior can affect males’weight satisfaction areas, but has no effect on females. Age had no significant effects on weight image of Zhejiang’s objects.There are significant differences on height reality, expected weight and BMI, male’s weight reality, female’s expected height between Zhejiang and Taiwan, and the difference keeps at 0.05 level.Differences on weight image between two schools, expected male body image for male objects, overweight preoccupation for female objects between Zhejiang and Taiwan is significant at the 0.05 level.There is significant difference on exercise behavior between Taiwan and Zhejiang, and the difference level is 0.05. The exercise behavior grade at Zhejiang is far lower than Taiwan.There have some difference between Zhejiang and Taiwan, whatever weight image or exercise behavior. The specific reasons should be discussed later.