Correlates of Bio-Psychosocial Factors on Perceived Body Image amongst Adolescents: Implications for Preventive Health Education

Abstract

The study examined the interrelationships between a variety of measures designed to index the associations among adolescents' bio-psychosocial factors and body image. Participants were 300 students whose age range between 11 and 26 years (mean =16.80, SD= 4.17) who completed questionnaires. The questionnaire contained measures of demographics, self-esteem, self-efficacy, food habit index, exercise, weight. Data was analyzed using correlation analysis. The results indicated that there was a positive relationship between self-esteem and perceived body image (r = .45, p < .01) and between self-efficacy and body image (r = .22, p < .01. While a negative relationship was found between food habit index and perceived body image (r = -.22, p <.01), food habit and perceived body image (r = -.24, p <. 01) and body weight and perceived body image (r = -.17, p < .01). There was no relationship between exercise and perceived body image (r = .07, p > .05). The implication of these findings for preventive health education were discussed and stakeholders were advised to inculcate the essence of physical activities and balance food eating habit in their programme in order to improve the level of body image satisfaction among adolescents.

Psychological and Physical Correlates of Body Image Dissatisfaction among High School Egyptian Students

“…In this study, marked concern with body shape increased significantly with increases in BMI and this is in line with previous studies indicating that underweight & average -weight adolescents are mostly satisfied with their body image, whereas overweight and obese adolescents of both genders are mostly dissatisfied with their body image (29, 40, 38, 28,) In our sample, no significant association was observed between the level of physical activity and perceived body image. This is in line with others studies (41). However, Ansari et al, 2014 reported that marked BIC was lower in physically active students (5), Kantanistaet alstated that higher levels of physical activity in adolescents had a protective effect on BD, which is independent of BMI or gender (7).…”

Therapeutic Outcome of Self-Control and Social Interaction Interventions on Negative Body Image among in-school Adolescents with Low Health literacy in Southwest Nigeria

“…Anýžová and Matějů (2018) observed that more attractive-ness has been linked to happiness, higher socioeconomic status, success and happiness in life. Adolescents with low health literacy have been reported to have higher likelihood of having severe eating disorders and unhealthy behaviours which has the likelihood of culminating to negative body image (Koleoso et al, 2018;Asagba et al, 2016). According to US Department of Health Services and Health Promotion (2020), health literacy is an individual ability to obtain, process and understand basic Therapeutic Outcome of Self-Control and Social Interaction Interventions on Negative Body Image among in-school Adolescents with Low Health literacy in Southwest Nigeria 239 think, feel, and behave with regards to their own physique can be positive or negative.…”

“…Previous studies in this field of study were majorly descriptive surveys (Koleoso et al, 2018;Asagba et al, 2016;Boberová, & Husárová, 2021). Surveys can reveal import-ant information about people's behaviours and attitude, but they do not have capacity to establish cause and effect relationship.…”