Study on the related factors contributing to body image and dieting behaviors among the senior vocational school students in New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chao, Ting-Hui, 趙婷蕙
• Other Authors: Chen, Cheng-Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74705290625010379676

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 104 === This study aimed to explore the correlations of demography, body image and dieting behaviors among the senior vocational school students. The study population consisted of the students excluding sports classes and special education classes from one of the senior vocational schools in New Taipei City. The sample was generated using stratified cluster random sampling. Respondents were asked to complete a self-structured questionnaire, and a total number of 327 valid questionnaires were collected. The main results are as follows: 1.The body shape of most respondents was moderate, with approximately 30% of the respondents belong to overweight and obesity, and more than 10% of the respondents was underweight. The social support of respondents to the highest degree of family support, and teacher support was the lowest. The media affect to the respondents was medium-low level, which was most affected by acting star body shape. 2.The results indicated that overall body image of respondents was medium level tend to positive, but not satisfied with their own body, which was the most dissatisfied with the waist area, and under torso followed. The results showed that male students had a more positive body image than female students, underweight who had a more positive body image than overweight and obesity. The respondents by the media, the greater affect, the more negative body image. 3.The dieting behaviors of respondents was not serious, more for skipping meals and reducing food intake. The results showed that female students, overweight and obesity, the respondents by more social support, the more media affect, the more negative body image, the more prone to dieting behavior. 4.Personal background and body image can predict dieting behaviors which can explain 45.9% of the total variance. The main predictors were "obesity", "media affect" and "body image". Of then, the most predict variance was "body image". The results showed that obesity, the more media affect, the more negative body image, the more prone to dieting behavior.