The Influential Factors of Body Image among High School Students

Author

Ping, Fan ; Zhou, Zongkui ; Liu, Jiujun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Psychol., Huazhong Normal Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The present study was designed to develop predictive model for the influential factors of body image among high school students (N=379) in China. Five factors were assessed, including body mass index (BMI), self-esteem, perception of teasing, physical appearance comparison and perceived social pressure. One SEM model, which had good fit indices, BMI exerted its influence on body image indirectly through perception of teasing. Two sources of sociocultural influences, perception of teasing directly and indirectly predicted body dissatisfaction, social pressure to be thin indirectly predicted body dissatisfaction. Results indicated that, self-esteem partially and significantly mediated the relationship between sociocultural influence and body image concerns.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; biomedical measurement; social sciences computing; body image; body mass index; high school students; influential factors; self-esteem; sociocultural influences; socioculture; teasing, perception; Biological system modeling; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Focusing; Humans; Multidimensional systems; Muscles; Predictive models; Psychology; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163627

Filename

5163627