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The purpose of this research is to understand body image and weight reduction intention and the related factors of students in the senior high and vocational schools. The research utilized the cross-sectional design, based on two senior high and one vocational school students of Taoyuan County as the research samples. The study randomly selecting sampling issued 1,080 copies of questionnaire of which 1,007 copies were effectively retrieved. The effective retrieving ratio is 93.2%. Data analyses included t-test, Pearson product-moment correlation, one-way ANOVA, and stepwise regression analysis. The main results are shown as followed:
1. Appearance evaluation: male subjects felt higher satisfaction with appearance evaluation than females; the subjects of real underweight and normal weight were more satisfied than the obese; the subjects of self-perceived underweight and of normal type were higher than those of overweight and obesity; overweight subjects were more satisfied than obese ones.
2. Appearance orientation: female subjects were more concerned about appearance orientation than males; the subjects who joined in dance clubs were more concerned than those who participated in ball clubs and never signed in sport clubs.
3. Body area satisfaction: male subjects felt higher satisfied with body area satisfaction than females, the females in the co-educational class were higher than single gender class, real underweight was higher than overweight and obesity, normal was higher than obesity, self-perceived underweight and normal were higher than overweight and obesity, parent’s education above university was higher than elementary and junior schools.
4. There was a positive correlation between television media coverage and appearance orientation. Therefore, the greater the influence of media was the greater the appearance orientation became.
5. There was a negative correlation among social support, appearance evaluation and body area satisfaction. That indicated that the greater the social support was the lower the appearance evaluation and body area satisfaction were. There was a positive correlation between social support and the appearance orientation. Therefore, the greater the influence of social support was the greater the appearance orientation was.
6. Weight reduction intention: 42.1% of students had the weight reduction intention in the coming six weeks. Females had significantly higher weight reduction intention than the males; males in single gender class was higher than co-educational class; subjects weight of normal, overweight, obesity types more enthusiastic than those who were underweight; overweight and obese subjects were higher than normal subjects; subjects of self-perceived weight, normal, overweight, obesity, were more enthusiastic than underweight subjects, overweight and obesity subjects were higher than those normal.
7. There was a positive correlation among television media coverage, social support and weight reduction intention. Therefore, the greater influence of media and social support became the greater the weight reduction intention was.
8. There was a positive correlation between appearance orientation and weight reduction intention. Therefore, the greater the appearance orientation was, the greater the weight reduction intention was. There was a negative correlation among appearance evaluation, body area satisfaction and weight reduction intention. It revealed that the lower the appearance evaluation and body area satisfaction, the greater the weight reduction intention was.
9. Six variables including self-perceived weight, television media coverage, sport club, social support, weight reduction intention, and parent’s education can generate the total explained variance of 14.6% for body image. Seven variables including self-perceived weight, television media coverage, gender, real weight, body image, single or co-educational class, social support can generate the total explained variance of 43.0% for weight reduction intention.
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