Mediating Effect of Body Image Distortion on Weight Loss Efforts in Normal‐Weight and Underweight Korean Adolescent Girls

Abstract

School-based health education and intervention programs are needed to promote the formation of a positive body image, not only for obese adolescents, but also for normal-weight and underweight adolescent girls.

Morphofunctional and motor characteristics of Baikal region’s students (Russia) with overweight

“…The lowest results of anthropometry and physiometry are revealed in males and females of group "OB" (р<0.05). The similar dependence of anthropometrical indicators of the person and overweight and obesity is noted by others researches [49,70].…”

Body Dissatisfaction, Perceptions of Competence, and Lesson Content in Physical Education

“…Previous research has argued for the inclusion of school‐based interventions to promote the development of a positive body image . Although there is a tendency for body image programs to focus on decreasing body dissatisfaction in females, our findings suggest that initiatives should consider the equal distribution of body dissatisfaction that was identified in the current study and thus develop programs to support both boys and girls.…”

The relationship between body shape perception and health behaviors among Korean normal-weight adolescents using Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey

“…A study describes subjective health perception was high among males who perceived themselves as obese and relatively low among females who perceived themselves as thin, owing to the tendency to perceive obesity as being healthy and thin as being unhealthy. Females showed similar trends across those with both normal and abnormal perceptions of themselves (Choi and Kim, 2017) and subjective health perception was shown to affect the obesity level (Rey et al, 2017). Subjective weight perception and health behaviors in perceived thin, overweight perceiving changes in most countries (Choi and Kim, 2017) commonly 15-year-old adolescents of 33 European and North American countries from 2002 to 2014, but big changes and psychological dissatisfaction appeared in female adolescents of Scotland and Norway (Whitehead et al, 2018).…”

“…Perceived male in obese and female normal and obese showed more efforts for weight control, that they perceived the dangerous influence of obesity. The proportion of the normal-weight adolescents who perceived themselves as thin was high in males and the proportion who perceived themselves as fat was high in females (Choi and Kim, 2017). In efforts for weight control, the proportion of efforts to lose weight was higher in females than males, and the proportion of efforts to maintain weight in the normal-weight group was lower than in the overweight and obese groups (Buscemi et al, 2018).…”