The Study On The Relationship Of Body-image,Self-esteem And Life Satisfaction Of University Students

Body-image is about one's perception of his own body, It contains perception,imaging,emotion and the physical feeling to our body. It was the important period of body-image study in 90's. The scholars of different countries put forward various theories about body-image, and according to the different dimentions of body-image, researchers developed many methods of measurement to body-image. But there is a few researchs about body-image in our country, and the existing research findings are mostly in Taiwan and HongKong.,in mainland, we have Luobowei and Pengwenbo from Zhejiang Institute of Education who are doing researchs on body-image.We have very close relationship with our body, the cognition,attitude and sensibility to our body can influence our daily emotion,attitude and behavior. Students who have lower body-image may be self-contemptuous, and have learning difficulties as well, all of these above can decrease college students'life satisfaction.This essay aims to study the relationship between body-image,self-esteem and life satisfaction of college students. And by the results of this study, we can do consulting directly at those low body-image students, and we can also intensify publicity and education about body-image, in order to prevent negative effects coming from lower body-image.Based on the requirement mentioned, the college students are asked to answer the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (hereafter refferred to as MBSRQ), which is compliled by Thomas F. Cash from Virginia, Old Dominion University, Self-Esteem Scale which is complied by Rosenberg, and Teenager students Life Satisfaction Scale, which is compliled by Zhangxinggui from Guangdong Foreign Language and Foreign Trade University on the measurement of self-body image,self-esteem and life satisfaction.The research conclusion:1.Male students are more satisfied with their appearance than their female counterparts , female students care more about their appearance and weight.2.The students in senior grade have better body-image status than junior students, and the life satisfaction between senior and junior students shows no difference..3.The art students have better body-image status than the students majoring in other subjects, but art students are more worried about their weight and tending to overestimate their weights. And art students are also more satisfied about their life than students majoring in other subjects.4.The body-image and the life satisfaction are significantly positively related.5.The concern about the total score of body-image has good prediction towards the life satisfaction, all the dimensions of life satisfaction can be well predicted by total score of body-image.6. The body-image has good prediction towards the self-esteem, the self-esteem mediated the relationship between body-image and life satisfaction. In other words, body-image has indirect influence on life satisfaction through self-esteem.