The Intervention Study Of Negative Body Image In Junior High School Students

Body image refers to how you personally experience your embodiment,encompassing your perceptions, beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions that pertain toyour physical appearance. If you indicates extreme dissatisfaction with your physicalappearance and associates with a range of emotional and behavioral problems, you havea negative body image. Sometimes a negative body image is a part of a more complexproblem, like body image disturbance or body dysmorphic disorder. This research try tofind out the general survey of junior high school students’ body image, intervene thestudents who have negative body image and help them change how they think, act andfeel in order to have happier, more fulfilling lives.The study is divided into two parts, the investigation and intervention. Take arandom stratified sampling method to select five junior high schools’ students fromUrumqi which complete the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire(MBRSQ) to understanding of the overall situation. Then selects some students withnegative body image to intervene. The results are following:(1)The overall satisfaction of junior high school students is in medium level, andgirl’s body satisfaction is lower than boy’s. In appearance concerns, there is a obviousdifference between the first grade and the other grades, there is no obvious differencebetween the second and the third grade. There is no obvious difference in age, one-childand hometown.(2)Race have no obvious difference in appearance evaluation, appearanceconcerns, physical health assessment, physical health concerns, body parts satisfaction.The average score whose mother’s education with tertiary and beyond is higher thanthose educational ground below in physical health assessment and body partssatisfaction. There is no obvious difference in fathers educational ground.(3)Family incomes is proportional to the average score of appearance evaluationand appearance concerns. The more income, more score.(4)BMI have a obvious difference in appearance evaluation, appearance concerns,physical health assessment, physical health concerns, disease concern and worries,overweight preoccupation and self classified weight. BMI can predict body image.(5)The intervention measures in study are helpful to build a positive body image.Control group have no obvious difference between before and after test data. Treatgroup have a obvious difference between before and after test data besides diseaseconcern and worries and self classified weight.