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Tytuł: | Sense of Personal Attractiveness, Perceiving Social Pressure on Attractive Appearance, Behaviour Leading to its Achievement among University Students |
Autor: | Borzucka‑Sitkiewicz, Katarzyna |
Słowa kluczowe: | body image; health education; young adults |
Data wydania: | 2008 |
Źródło: | The New Educational Review, Vol. 15, no. 2 (2008), s. 71-79 |
Abstrakt: | The aim of the study was to determine how university students perceive their
personal attractiveness, how pressurized they feel into being up to the dominant
ideals of body attractiveness and if they undertake actions aimed at shaping their
appearance.
A cross-sectional design was used. A total of 257 university students (including
160 women) aged 19 to 27 (M 21.0 SD 1.70) were surveyed. The students completed
questionnaires measuring perceived social pressure on attractive appearance,
satisfaction with one’s appearance and actions aimed at shaping one’s appearance.
The results suggest that the respondents are moderately content with their body
images with more positive scores obtained by men. The parts of the body which
are the source of disappointment in women are buttocks, hips, thighs and stomach
while in men stomach and legs. What is interesting is that the women see the
above-mentioned parts as too fat or shapeless whereas the men consider them
too weak. The approval of the body image seems to depend on the level of social
pressure under which the respondents are; however, the negative influence of the
social pressure was noticed mainly by the women. A very low score has been
observed in actions taken towards one’s own body eg. physical activity, dieting,
taking medicines or paramedicines and beauty sessions. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/10471 |
ISSN: | 1732-6729 |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (WNS)
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