The Relationship Between Undergraduate Students’ Physical Exercise、Body Image And Social Anxiety

Body image is the attitude,fantasy,emotion and behavior of individuals on their appearance and body shape,with significant impact on mental health of individuals.Social anxiety self-presentation model is believed to generate social anxiety by individual self-image to the outside world in order to show the influence of others.In fact,self-presentation model is not only affected by the body image,the impact of physical exercise can not be ignored.This study aims to from the behavior point of view of physical exercise,a combination of cognitive perspective provides counseling and intervention to the social anxiety of college students problems.This study adopts questionnaire survey to 1167 college students as the subjects,analysis the characteristics of college students’ physical training present situation,the body image and social anxiety;Secondly,discusses the relationship of the physical exercise,body image and the social anxiety.Focuses on how the physical exercise affects the social anxiety and body image play the role in physical exercise and social anxiety.The main results in the present study were described as follows:1.Physical ExerciseThere were significant differences of the college students’ physical exercise in grade,gender and professional.The exercise quantity of professional sports is significantly higher than other professional;Boys more exercise than girls;Grade on exercise is higher than other grade,followed by a freshman,the last is a senior.2.Body Image(1)College students reported higher negative body image.(2)Different gender,professional,grade of college students body image has significant differences.Boys than girls more satisfied with their own body image,and girls pay more attention to their appearance;Senior grade than the other grade students pay more attention to appearance,disease and health;The evaluation of professional sports than liberal arts students in their body image,and the liberal arts majors pay more attention to their appearance than other three professional.In addition,Body mass index in normal and overweight students healthier than underweight.3.Social Anxiety(1)Overall the level of college students’ social anxiety in the average.(2)There were significant differences of the college students’ social anxiety in gender,grade,professional.Girls in social avoidance behavior and social distress feeling dimensions were higher than male college students;Professional differences,sports and engineering showed on social avoidance behavior less than in the school of arts living;Senior grade in social avoidance and subjective distress than low grade one,two,three.4.The relationship between physical exercise,body image and social anxiety(1)In general,the more positive evaluation of the college students body image,the less of social anxiety(social avoidance and social discomfort);the greater amount of college students’ physical exercise,the less of the individual’s social anxiety(social avoidance and social discomfort).(2)Physical exercise mediated the relation between body image and social anxiety,illness orientation has partial mediating effect.(3)Physical exercise could moderate the relation between body image and social anxiety,which is manifested in these aspects:appearance orientation and health orientation.