Body image and weight control behavior / Supattra Mungkalachaiya / Faculty of Graduate Studies Mahidol University - 2006

Public ISBD No review available on this record. Title : Body image and weight control behavior : a study of high school female students Material Type: printed text Authors: Supattra Mungkalachaiya, Author Publisher: Faculty of Graduate Studies Mahidol University Publication Date: 2006 Pagination: viii, 95 p. Layout: table, graph Size: 30 cm. ISBN (or other code): 978-974-047-238-9 Price: Gift General note: Thesis. (M.A. (Medical and Health Social Sciences))-- Mahidol University, 2006 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: [LCSH]Body Image in adolescence [LCSH]Diet [LCSH]Nutrition [LCSH]Weight control Keywords: Body image. Diet. Weight control. Class number: WD212 S761 2006 Abstract: This investigation was to study the meaning of knowledge belief and experience related to the self body image linked to weight control behavior among female high schoole student. Qualitative research was employed among 12 sixteen-seventeen year old female students studying in senior high school. Finding were that they defined their self body images in 3 dimensions First, They saw their bodies as parts and sized them in parts such as arms legs breasts waists hips and abdomens Second, they defined their self-body images as pair of opposites which was that the shape that appealed to them was contradictory to what they had at the moment. for example, those who thought they were short wished to be taller or those who thought they were fat wished to be thinner. Third they defined their self-body images by viewing them in comparison to others. They compared their existing bodies with the past ones. They compare their bodies with others either their friends family members and even those they admired or those they met or in the media. Female adolescents negatively defined fatness rather than positively. It negatively affected them. It was compared to a sprinter, idleness and a buffon. ot was problematic and it was and enemy. However, on the contras they also positively. It was a health risk related to slimness They defined it positively than negatively. It was modern feminine active and created confidence Though they desired to be thin They negatively defined it. Slimness was disheartening and pitiful Related to beauty they defined it as proportion and balance. there should be both external beauty which was the mind which could create lasting friendship. Beauty linked the body and femininity. In relattion to weight control behavior it was found that the femal adolescent used techniques of dieting with exercise most followed by either only dieting or exercising. Finally using the laxative for reducing one's weight. Friends, parents and media influenced them in selecting the techniquies. It was found that weight control behavior was selected they had no discipline to continue with it. Such behavior happened only for the purpose of reducing their weight and their shape. If it worked, they would stop or otherwise return to do it again. Curricular : BNS Record link: http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=23291 Body image and weight control behavior : a study of high school female students [printed text] / Supattra Mungkalachaiya, Author . - Bangkok : Faculty of Graduate Studies Mahidol University, 2006 . - viii, 95 p. : table, graph ; 30 cm. ISSN : 978-974-047-238-9 : Gift Thesis. (M.A. (Medical and Health Social Sciences))-- Mahidol University, 2006 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: [LCSH]Body Image in adolescence [LCSH]Diet [LCSH]Nutrition [LCSH]Weight control Keywords: Body image. Diet. Weight control. Class number: WD212 S761 2006 Abstract: This investigation was to study the meaning of knowledge belief and experience related to the self body image linked to weight control behavior among female high schoole student. Qualitative research was employed among 12 sixteen-seventeen year old female students studying in senior high school. Finding were that they defined their self body images in 3 dimensions First, They saw their bodies as parts and sized them in parts such as arms legs breasts waists hips and abdomens Second, they defined their self-body images as pair of opposites which was that the shape that appealed to them was contradictory to what they had at the moment. for example, those who thought they were short wished to be taller or those who thought they were fat wished to be thinner. Third they defined their self-body images by viewing them in comparison to others. They compared their existing bodies with the past ones. They compare their bodies with others either their friends family members and even those they admired or those they met or in the media. Female adolescents negatively defined fatness rather than positively. It negatively affected them. It was compared to a sprinter, idleness and a buffon. ot was problematic and it was and enemy. However, on the contras they also positively. It was a health risk related to slimness They defined it positively than negatively. It was modern feminine active and created confidence Though they desired to be thin They negatively defined it. Slimness was disheartening and pitiful Related to beauty they defined it as proportion and balance. there should be both external beauty which was the mind which could create lasting friendship. Beauty linked the body and femininity. In relattion to weight control behavior it was found that the femal adolescent used techniques of dieting with exercise most followed by either only dieting or exercising. Finally using the laxative for reducing one's weight. Friends, parents and media influenced them in selecting the techniquies. It was found that weight control behavior was selected they had no discipline to continue with it. Such behavior happened only for the purpose of reducing their weight and their shape. If it worked, they would stop or otherwise return to do it again. Curricular : BNS Record link: http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=23291

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