The Role Of Coping Strategies In Negative Body Image Of Women

The body image problem is universal,and women are more dissatisfied with their bodies,which leads to anxiety,depression and other issues such as eating disorders.In real life,people often encounter events or situations that have negative effects on body image,so they adopt certain strategies to adjust or deal with the depressing thoughts,emotions or scenes resulting from them.In addition,women often conduct social comparisons of appearance,even if the comparison produces detrimental results.These can make women feel unsatisfied with their bodies and produce a series of appearance management behaviors,such as buying clothes.To explore the cause of body image formation and the research on the subsequent management behavior have important theoretical and practical significance,but there is no research on this aspect in China.Therefore,based on the literature review,the article collected data by combining online questionnaire and paper questionnaire.This paper firstly describes the characteristics of women' s negative body image,then discusses the relationship between coping strategies,body-focused social comparison and negative body image,which can help us understand the causes of negative body image.Finally,we investigate the behavior of clothing selection in appearance management,and explore the relationship between negative body image and clothing function and clothing experience.The results are as follows:First,the negative body image has age university,relative to the attention to height and overall appearance,the participants pay more attention to weight problems.BMI was positively correlated with negative body image,and women of different age and BMI were significantly different in negative body image.Subjects has higher scores on the social comparison scales.Second,relative to the downward comparison,the participants often do upward social comparison;The overall social comparison,upward comparison and downward comparison were positively correlated with negative body image.Compared with the avoidance strategies,the subjects reported more positive rational acceptance and appearance-fixing strategies,and the negative body image was significantly positively correlated with the avoidance and appearance-fixing strategies.Upward social comparison mediated the relationship between avoidance,appearance-fixing strategies and negative body image.Third,when people choose clothes,they are mainly based on the comfort and assurance function of clothes.Sopping for cloths are perceived as a neutral experience,and negative body image and BMI were significantly negatively correlated with the purchase experience.