DİYET YAPAN KADINLARDA BEDEN ALGISI, BENLİK SAYGISI, YAŞ VE VÜCUT KİTLE İNDEKSİ İLİŞKİSİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI
INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF BODY IMAGE, SELF ESTEEM, AGE AND BODY MASS INDEX IN DIETING FEMALES

Summary/Abstract: Self esteem is generally described as feelings of self worth, while body image is described as positive cognitions towards individual’s own body. These two concepts are accepted as related with each other. It was claimed that body concept is compose a quite important aspect of self esteem and psychological well being of an individual. It is possible to relate body dissatisfaction, self esteem and dieting efforts with eating disorders and obesity both. Hence related investigations are important in terms of obesity and eating disorders related studies both. Therefore under the light of the related literature the aim of this study is investigation of the cognition of dieting women in terms of body image, self esteem and examination of relationships among body image, self esteem, age and body mass index (BMI). Body Image Scale and Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale have been used for data collection. Participants are 110 women with age range 21-63 (M=38.91). According to findings %10.6 of total variance of body image was explained by BMI and body image has negative correlation with BMI and age. The group with obesity has lower body image satisfaction than the group with normal BMI. An increase in terms of BMI and age is related with decreasing body image satisfaction.

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