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The Investigation Of University Students' Negative Physical Self And Intervention On Body Dissatisfaction

Posted on:2012-04-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330335474789Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Negative Physical Self(Negative Physical Self, NPS), is also called body image disorders, it refers to a passive cognition of one's body, passive emotional experiences and the corresponding adjustment of one's behaviors, which provides a negative approach on physical self study. Body Dissatisfaction (Body Dissatisfaction) is one's own body's unpleasant emotional experiences, it is under the influence of negative physical self, is a direct manifestation of negative physical self, which belongs to the emotional aspect of physical self. In recent years the domestic for physical self-study gradually increased, while there has been a relative lack of the research on negative physical self this one specific direction. Daily life caused by the negative physical self psychological problems (such as depression, inferiority, low self-worth), behavioral problems (such as eating disorders) and diseases (such as anorexia nervosa, obesity), etc. are very common. College students'group is in the young adulthood, in this key period their self-awareness vigorous development personality constantly improvement, they pay more attention to concern for self and others evaluation, while the student's body dissatisfaction in this period are also widespread. This study choose Inner Mongolia autonomous region which the representative in western minority areas as background to explore the characteristics of college students' negative physical self,then using group counseling intervention methods intervene college students' body dissatisfaction, Expecting through this research enrich the adolescence physical self study and promoting the development of college students' mental health and healthy personality formation.The first part of this study using questionnaire method to probe into the characteristics of college students' negative physical self, it is aim to understand the Inner Mongolia college students'negative physical self features and status quo.The second part of the study using the group counseling intervention methods intervene the group members who were recruited and screened out through the advertisements and pretest, the current study attempted to find a effective way to reduce college student's body dissatisfaction and built healthy body viewpoint. The research conclusions are as follows:(1) Overall, the college students are satisfied with their bodies in the medium level, but the general dissatisfaction of bodies were slightly common.The order of the dissatisfaction of dimensions of NPS shows as follows:the general,shortness,fatness,thinness,appearance.(2)There were significantly gender differences among the subscales but shortness and thinness. The girl in the general, fatness, appearance more dissatisfied than boys, boys more dissatisfied with thinness dimension.(3) There were significantly national differences among the subscales but appearance and thinness. Han college students have more body dissatisfaction than Mongolian college students.(4) Urban and Rural College students in NPS general,shortness,shortness,fatness four dimensions have significantly differences, other dimensions of difference was not significant. City College students' satisfied about specific dimensions lower than the agricultural and pastoral students'.(5) Different professional college students' negative physical self does, not exist significantly differences except general&fatness. But after interview to understand for some students due to their professional have special requirements of physical qualities they have extreme cognition on the body satisfaction.(6) The correlation analyses indicated that there were negative relationship between NPS and body-esteem, negative relationship between NPS and self-worth. (7) Group counseling intervention on body dissatisfaction can effectively improve the satisfaction of college student on self body, also can improve body-esteem, and thus promoting their mental health, building healthy body and self viewpoint.
Keywords/Search Tags:University students, Negative physical self, Body dissatisfied, Group Counseling
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