Discriminant Analysis of Personality and Body-Image Factors of Females Differing in Percent Body Fat

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-552
Author(s):  
Michael Young ◽  
T. Gilmour Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Discriminant Analyses ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Body Cathexis

The purpose of the study was to determine whether individuals with high percent body fat can be distinguished on the basis of personality and body-image from those possessing lower levels of body fat. 65 female college students were administered the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Secord and Jourard Body-cathexis Scale. Measurements of height, weight, and skin folds at the triceps and illiac crest were also taken. On the basis of percent body fat two groups of 20 females each (high and low percent body fat) were identified. From discriminant analyses one personality factor and six body-image items were identified which distinguished between groups. Reclassification of the subjects, based upon derived discriminant functions, resulted in 60.0% of the subjects being correctly reclassified from personality data and 100% of the subjects correctly reclassified from body-image data. Body-image appears to be an important factor that can distinguish between individuals possessing high and low levels of body fat.

Relationship between Body Image and Percent Body Fat among Male and Female College Students Enrolled in an Introductory 14-Week Weight-Training Course

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Craig Huddy ◽  
Robert L. Johnson ◽  
Michael H. Stone ◽  
Christopher M. Proulx ◽  
Katherine A. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Weight Training ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Skinfold Measurements ◽  
Exercise Induced ◽  
Induced Changes

Students (39 men and 27 women) from a southern university, who were enrolled in a 14-wk. introductory weight-training course, were administered a 20-item body-image questionnaire and subsequently underwent skinfold measurements to assess percent body fat. Mean scores were correlated with percent body fat. For men, women, and both sexes combined correlations were significant and inverse ( rs = −.68, −.41, −.66, respectively). Body image as measured was inversely related to percent body fat among these college students. Researchers should examine how dietary and exercise-induced changes in adiposity (pre-post design) influence scores on body image.

Physical Correlates of College Students' Body Image Satisfaction Levels

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Çatikkaş
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Body Image Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Male Body Image

Whether or not the association between physical characteristics and body image satisfaction varies by gender was investigated. The sample included 148 male and 104 female college students aged 19-27 years. To assess body image satisfaction, the Body Image Satisfaction Questionnaire (Berscheid, Walster, & Bohrnstedt, 1973) was used. Body fat, waist to hip, chest to shoulder ratio, weight, and height were measured. The results indicate that males had significantly greater body image satisfaction than did females. There was a small but significant correlation between physical characteristics and body image satisfaction for females but not for males. The regression model, consisting of bodily measures, predicted a significant variance in female body image satisfaction. The same model failed to explain male body image satisfaction.

Body-Image and Body-Beautification among Female College Students

1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar R. Kelson ◽  
Ann Kearney-Cooke ◽  
Leonard M. Lansky
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Body Consciousness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Competent Body ◽  
Feminist Identification ◽  
Cultural Pressures ◽  
Body Cathexis

Women's body-image has social and personal implications. Judgments about the body can be based on appearance (public body-consciousness), internal sensations (private body-consciousness) or body-effectiveness (body-competence). The correlates of body-image and beautification were studied in a group of 245 female undergraduates who completed a body-beautification questionnaire, the Body-consciousness Inventory, the Body-cathexis/Self-cathexis Scale, and questions on feminist identification. Significant correlations were found between public body-consciousness and beautification. Body-cathexis was also correlated with body-competence. For feminists, a competent body was correlated with awareness of internal sensations, while nonfeminists connect a competent body with appearance. Results were discussed in relation to the social and cultural pressures for women to focus on appearance.

Relationship between Body Image and Percent Body Fat among College Male Varsity Athletes and Nonathletes

1993 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 851-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Craig Huddy ◽  
David C. Nieman ◽  
Robert L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
College Men ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Varsity Athletes ◽  
Skinfold Measurements ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Relationship

Three groups of students from a large midwestern university (15 varsity swimmers, 15 varsity football players, and 15 nonathletes) were administered a 20-item questionnaire concerned with body image and subsequently underwent skinfold measurements to assess percent body fat. Scores obtained were correlated to estimate the relationship between body image and adiposity. For the groups combined ( N = 45) the relationship was significant and inverse ( r = − 0.51). For the nonathletic group a significant value − 0.76 was found; for the two groups of athletes there was no relationship ( rs = 0.002 and − 0.059 for football players and swimmers, respectively). We conclude that body image as measured in this study is inversely related to percent body fat among college men, especially among students not engaged in varsity sports.

Relationship between Body Image and Percent Body Fat among British School Children

2002 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Duncan ◽  
Lorayne A. Woodfield ◽  
Stephen J. O'Neill ◽  
Yahya Al-Nakeeb
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
School Children ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
British School
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