The Relationship Among Negative Physical Self,self-esteem And Self-consistency & Congruence Of University Students

Negative physical self refers to the negative physical cognition, negative emotion experience and the corresponding behavior control, and is the research on the physical self from the negative orientation.In this paper, questionnaires and interviews are adopted to conduct a survey on the status quo of the negative physical self, self-esteem and self consistency and congruence of the university students and explore the relationship among them.In this paper, students of Lanzhou University of Arts and Science are randomly sampling and Negative Physical Self Scale(NPSS),Self-esteem Scale(SES) and Self Consistency & Congruence Scale(SCCS) are used as the research tools to conduct the questionnaires. The 551 effective questionnaires are analyzed through different statistical methods. Then, four university students with high negative physical self were selected as the interviewees to be interviewed with.The results are as follows:(1) The college students' negative physical self is in a general healthy level and dissatisfaction is rated from high to low: overall figure, appearance, thinness, short and fat.(2) College students' negative physical self takes on significant gender differences in overall figure, appearance, thinness, short and fat as four dimensions;regional differences in fat dimensions; grades differences in five dimensions of overall figure, appearance, thinness, short and fat.(3) The college students have good self-esteem, with significant differences in grades.(4) College students' self consistency and congruence stay in a normal level,with significant differences in gender and grades.(5) The college students' negative physical self and self harmonious was significantly positively related, and self-esteem has significant negative correlation.College students' self harmonious and self-esteem have significant negative correlation.(6) Self-esteem plays a partial intermediary role between negative physical self and self consistency and congruence, and negative physical self has effect on selfharmony as a mediating role indirectly.(7) A person with high negative physical self always have low evaluation on its appearance, no matter how his actual appearance is, and pay too much attention to his appearance, leading to emotional disturbances to their bodies, and social aspects, just because of dissatisfaction with his own outer appearance.The results show that: as a whole, the negative physical self of the university students is at a healthy level. With the continuous development in the society, male's awareness of physical “beauty” has been gradually awakened. The university students' dissatisfaction about their physical appearance has caused continuous reduction in their self-esteem and further led to the opposite of self consistency and congruence. The university students with negative physical self attach excessive importance to their appearance and have a wrong opinion of their appearance, which place them in a puzzle. How to help and guide the university students in modern society to correctly understand their appearance and cultivate diversified aesthetic appreciation have become the issues worth considering in the education.