• 가정의학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.355-359
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• 2018

Background: Body image is associated with the perception of people on themselves. Influencing factors are generated internally and/or externally. The most common issue pertaining to body image is body weight and weight loss. This study aimed to determine the association between body weight perception and weight loss practices among college students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 297 college students from private nursing colleges in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess sociodemographic characteristics, body weight perception, and weight loss methods. Weight and height were measured, and body mass index (BMI) was calculated based on weight and height measurement. The World Health Organization BMI cutoffs were applied in the study. Results: More than half (54.2%) of college students perceived their weight correctly as per actual measured BMI. A total of 51.5% of participants had tried various methods to reduce their weight. Body weight perception is associated with weight loss practices (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% confidence interval, 0.19-0.50; P<0.001) adjusted for sex, marital status, and status of having obese family members. Those who had correct body weight perception were less likely to engage in weight loss practice. Food intake restriction (42.4%) is the most popular weight reduction method among students in nursing colleges. Over a quarter of the participants chose physical exercise (25.3%) to reduce their weight, and a small number engaged in unhealthy weight loss practices. Conclusion: Body weight perception is an important factor that influences the practice to reduce weight especially among young adult group and college students.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.454-464
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop an experience-based sex education program to improve adjustment to puberty in elementary school students in the upper grades and to verify its effectiveness. Methods: This study had a pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design. The subjects of this study were a total of 95 sixth-graders in Y city (experimental group: 48, control group: 47). The measurement variables were sexual knowledge, body image, self-esteem, and satisfaction with life. Four sessions of the experience-based sex education program to improve adjustment to puberty, consisting of 40 minutes per session, were provided to the experimental group. Results: Children's sexual knowledge, self-esteem, and satisfaction with life in the experimental group, which participated in the experience-based sexual education program to improve adjustment to puberty, showed a significant increase compared to the control group. However, there was no statistically significant difference in body image. Conclusion: This study presents the development of an experience-based sex education program for adjustment to puberty to overcome the shortcomings of existing sex education programs that are limited to sexual knowledge and attitudes, and also verified that the sexual knowledge, self-esteem, and life satisfaction of the elementary school students who were provided with the program improved meaningfully.

• 한방비만학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2003

Objective : The purpose of this study is to investigate the emotional roubles of the obese and their's relationship with obesity so as to be useful for treating the obesity and estimating it's prognosis. Method : This study investigates the fifteen statistical treatises for the emotional troubles of the obese, and distributes their's results into depression, perception of obesity, satisfaction of body shape, eating behavior, and other emotional troubles. Conclusions: 1. In the obese dissatisfaction and inferiority complex for body shape are one of the causes bring about depression. 2. Masked depression is often, so exact examination is needed and the treatment of depression is useful for treating the obesity and estimating it's prognosis. 3. In the obese correcting wrong body shape image and making them gain confidence in treatment of obesity is needed because they have low self-efficacy in overeating, high perception of obesity, and dissatisfaction of body shape. 4. The obese has a abnormal eating behavior and it is related with the emotion troubles such as depression, low self-esteem, and so forth.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.463-468
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• 2013

Background: Body image dissatisfaction among breast cancer survivors has been associated with psychological stress resultant from breast cancer and resultant surgery. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Malay Version of the Breast-Impact of Treatment Scale (MVBITS) and to investigate the associations of retained factors with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Materials and Methods: The MVBITS was 'forward-backward' translated from English to Malay and then administered to 70 female breast cancer patients who came to the Oncology Clinic of University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to undergo chemotherapy. Principal component analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation was performed to explore the factor structure of the MVBITS. Associations of retained factors were estimated with reference to Spearman correlation coefficients. Results: The internal consistency reliability of MVBITS was good (Cronbach's alpha 0.945) and showed temporal stability over a 3-week period. Principal component analysis suggested two factors termed as 'Intrusion' and 'Avoidance' domains. These factors explained 70.3% of the variance. Factor 1 comprised the effects of breast cancer treatment on the emotion and thought, while Factor 2 informed attempts to limit exposure of the body to self or others. The Factor 1 of MVBITS was positively correlated with total, depression and anxiety sub-scores of HADS. Factor 2 was positively correlated with total and anxiety sub-scores of HADS. MVBITS was also positively correlated with the RSES scores. Conclusions: The results showed that the Malay Version of Breast-Impact of Treatment Scale possesses satisfactory psychometric properties suggesting that this instrument is appropriate for assessment of body change stress among female breast cancer patients in Malaysia.

• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.243-262
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• 1999

Today, obesity is not recognized as a disease itself but is known to be the indirect cause of much chronic illness. Obesity has an impact on psychological disorders including severe inferiority, damage of body self-image, low self-esteem, personality disorders. The results in an increase of the mortality rate. Therefore, this study attempts to discover and evaluate stressful experience in obese teenagers. For this study, 21 girl students and 19 boy students in Pusan middle or high school located were selected. The data were collected from March to May at 1999. A tape-recorder was used under the permission of the subjects to prevent the loss of spoken information and communication. This study consisted of 563 reponses from girls and 461 responses from boys which were then classified with descriptive expressions and priority classifications. The results generated 72 common elements in girls and 54 common elements in boys. From these elements 24 syntheses of hypothetical definitions and 8 identifications of the structural definitions in both girls and boys were developed. The structural and hypothetical definitions were as follows: The analysis of the data was made through a phenomenological analytic method suggested by Van kamm, which is as follows: 1. Maladjustment to school life; lack of understanding of the teacher, insufficient exercise ability, and a feeling of burden in attending the school obesity program. 2. Conflict in family relationships; lack of understanding from the family, a feeling of alienation. 3. Conflict in friend relationships; lack of understanding among friends, constant comparisons in appearance and body with friends (in girls) and estrangement from friends (in boys). 4. Conflict in acquaintance of the opposite sex; hoping to meet the opposite sex, lack of understanding of boy friends (in girls), feelings of pain, feelings of anxiety (in girls) feelings of burden (in girls) feelings of envy (in boys). 5. Negative body image: shape of body; feelings of pain; feelings of powerlessness; feelings of discomfort, and reception; emotional disorders (in boys), and change of personality (in boys). 6. Health disorder: Physical and psychological discomfort. 7. Feelings of burden in weight control; negative experiences in weight control, interference with family and friends, the difficulty in diet therapy, feelings of burden in exercise (in girls), to be teased by the public through mass media (in boys).

• 디자인학연구
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2002

All kinds of artwork, including multimedia and digital image that has been subliminated into an af mediating two numbers 0 and 1 in recent age, are self-sufficient and autonomous in themselves. Nevertheless, each of those artworks can be realized as a real entity only if its appreciator is capable enough to explore some potential meaning out of it through his or her own perceptual work. According to Mikel Dufrenne, an artwork is composed of three existential tiers: "le sensible" or the sensible material; "fe representation" or the subject(le sujet), and "1′expression." Dufrenne contends that our esthetic perception can be realized by way of three steps that are comparable to those three tiers: perception of the presence of the body("le sensible"), contemplative perception by way of imagination("le representation"), and reflective perception ("1′expression") as a result of dialectics of sense and sensibility. This paper argues on the aesthetic perception with regard to digital image expressed by two numbers 0 and 1, putting focus on the epistemological role of sensibility(감) that explores "1′expression" a la Dufrenne.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.135-148
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• 2008

This study examined the dieting behaviors and diet-influencing factors among college students in the Youngnam region. The data were collected by a self-administered questionnaires during May, 2007. One hundred-ninety samples were ultimately analyzed by SPSS Windows. The results were as follows. First, when comparing calculated BMI with perception of individual body image, many respondents regarded themselves as overweight although they were within normal BMI. Second, over four-fifths of the respondents indicated they were concerned with diet, and many respondents answered that they needed education and information on dieting. In terms of diet knowledge, the mean for correct answers was 77.9%. Mass media were very important sources for acquiring diet information, and the most popular dieting method was fasting therapy. The results of regression analyses to determine the factors affecting several dieting practices showed that grade, monthly allowances, diet awareness, diet knowledge, perception of individual body image, and BMI were significant.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.620-631
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• 2019

현대 사회에서는 남녀를 불문하고 외모관리가 중요한 사회적인 영향력과 경쟁력으로 대두되면서 외모관리의 중요성이 점점 더 부각되고 있다. 외모관리행동은 전통적으로 여성을 중심으로 받아들여지고, 거의 모든 소비시장의 주체가 여성이라는 인식이 최근까지 확산되어져 왔으나 1990년대 이후 성역할에 대한 고정관념의 변화와 여성들의 사회 진출로 인해 독립적인 성향이 강해지면서 남녀의 지위와 역할에도 상당한 영향을 미쳤다. 이에 따라 남성들은 여성적 영역에 있어서 과거보다 긍정적인 시각과 포용적인 태도를 보이기 시작했으며, 남성들도 자신의 외모를 가꾸고 자신을 잘 표현하기 위해서 외모관리행동에 많은 시간과 돈을 투자하는 경향이 증가하고 있다. 여성의 전유물로만 여겨졌던 화장품 모델에서도 남자가 등장하는가 하면 그루밍족, 노무족, 로엘족 등 연령대에 상관없이 외모에 관심을 갖는 남성 인구가 증가하고 더 나아가 직장인 남성들에게 외모는 승진이나 연봉 등 직업적 성취를 위한 경쟁력 요소라는 인식이 점차 확산되고 있다. 사회생활의 주체인 남성들은 호감 가는 외모와 긍정적인 이미지를 형성하기 위하여 후광효과를 발휘하게 된다. 자아존중감과 외모관리행동에 관한 연구는 두 가지 면에서 중요한 시사점을 가지고 있다. 첫째, 외모관리를 통하여 남성의 매력성을 증가시키며 그로 인한 스스로의 자아존중감 향상과 사회적 경쟁력을 확보할 수 있어 이는 업무 성취도에 있어서도 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 둘째, 남성 고유의 자아존중감이 높을수록 심리적으로 안정되어 사회적인 승인에 대한 의존도가 적으며 의복의 심미성을 중요시하게 되어 외모 관리행동력이 높아진다. 본 연구의 분석 결과에 따라 자기 자신에 대한 외모평가와 신체만족도가 자아존중감과 높은 상관관계가 있음을 연구결과 확인하였으며 대인관계형성에도 유의한 영향을 준다고 규명하였다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.357-370
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• 2013

The Republican Period of China (1912 to 1949) was when the archetypes of thought (constituting contemporary China) engaged in heated rivalry and were directly influenced by Korea through frequent exchanges. This study analyzes the characteristic of Chinese women's aesthetics towards the human body with a focus on visual materials (such as articles and illustrations concerning hairstyle, makeup, skincare, fashion, and gymnastics) featured in the Chinese women magazines of Fun$\ddot{u}$zazhi (婦女雜誌) and Linglong (玲瓏). This study analyzes these magazines and compares them with Korean counterparts. The movement of the developed and controlled human body was a common characteristic of this period; however, compared to the Chinese, the Japanese colonial period of Korea resulted in an introspective self-examination through excessively objectified eyes. Dress and adornment as the symbol of a new civilization acted as the most remarkable signifier. The overlapping of a western image with a Japanese image led to more resistance in Korea. The criterion for the value of a women's external appearance (that traditionally dualized womanly virtues) collapsed and dress was accepted as an expression of individuality instead of as a social class. The human body was traditionally recognized as a microcosm of the universe that dominated the natural principle of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements. However, the ideal human body was postulated and the aesthetic consciousness of the body changed into an imaginary view of the human body that proceeded to keep the body fit for and gave birth to the concept of supplementing the deficiency of the beauty of the human body with dress and makeup.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.92-101
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• 2008

배경 : 울산 지역 청소년에서 자기 체형에 대한 인식이나 만족도, 식이장애 여부를 평가 하였다. 방법 : 2008년 건강검진을 목적으로 울산동 강병원을 방문한 울산지역의 초등학교 4학년, 중학교 1학년, 고등학교 1학년 학생, 총 1,501명을 대상으로 자기보고식 설문조사 방법을 통해 조사하였다. EAT-26와 체형 불만족도에 대해 조사하였으며 결과를 성별과 학년, 체질량지수로 나누어 분석하였다. 결과 : 1) 학년이 증가할수록 남녀모두 키와 몸무게, 체형에 대한 불만족도가 증가하였다. 2) 체질량지수가 증가할수록 남녀모두 몸무게와 체형에 대한 불만족도가 증가하였다. 3) EAT-26점수와 식이 장애 고위험군의 비율이 남자보다 여자가 높았다. 결론 : 여자에서 체중이나 체형에 대한 불만족의 비율이 높고 자신을 뚱뚱하게 생각하고 있었으며, 식이 장애 고위험군이 여자에게서 어린 나이에 나타나는 경향이 있어, 식이장애 고위험군의 조기 발견 및 지속적인 추적관찰이 필요하다고 생각된다.