Mehrban Parsamehr; Mohamad Reza Neeknexad; Javad Madahi; Yazdan Karimi Monjarmoei
Volume 15, Issue 32 , March 2017, , Pages 99-108
Abstract
In today's world, young people are exposed to lean and muscular body ideal and it increases body dissatisfaction and their impacts to the existing body. So, young people are trying to shape their bodies based on idealized vision of a harmonious society closer to their cultural expectations. The research ...
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In today's world, young people are exposed to lean and muscular body ideal and it increases body dissatisfaction and their impacts to the existing body. So, young people are trying to shape their bodies based on idealized vision of a harmonious society closer to their cultural expectations. The research is to review the effective factors on dissatisfaction of body image among body building athletes in Yazd. Conducting a cross-sectional survey, data were collected and analyzed from a sample of 116 body building athletes in city of Yazd. The samples were selected using multistage cluster sampling. The data collected from questionnaires standard used. The data used descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and regression. The results showed significant relationship between eating disorders, idealism, membership in the club variables and dissatisfaction of body image. Meanwhile, there was no significant relationship between performance and dissatisfaction of body image. Also, the regression equation explained 34/8 percent of variance dependent variable per independent variable.
Mansoor Haghighatian; Seyyed Ali Hashemianfar; Masuod Darabi
Volume 14, Issue 30 , August 2016, , Pages 179-201
Abstract
With visual symbols of status and identity in late modernity, body has turned as a mean for the expression of identity and symbol of personality. Body care and monitoring provides the opportunity for people to maintain personal narrative of their bodies and put it on display. Given the importance attached ...
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With visual symbols of status and identity in late modernity, body has turned as a mean for the expression of identity and symbol of personality. Body care and monitoring provides the opportunity for people to maintain personal narrative of their bodies and put it on display. Given the importance attached to it, this article studies the relationship between lifestyle and body image among young women. The theoretical framework of the research is based on the theories of Giddens, Bourdiew, and Fouca. Study population of the research is 2659681, and the sample population is 415 women in Tehran. Cochran formula using multi-stage cluster sampling method has been applied to select the sample population. Data and information has been collected through survey and questionnaire. Also, multi-variable regression and structural equation modeling (AMOS) have been employed for analyzing the data. Test hypotheses suggest that there is a significant relationship among such variables as cultural consumption, cultural capital of body management, religious affiliation, leisure-time activities, education, age, and body image. The regression results indicate that, based on Beta value, variables like body management, religious affiliation, cultural consumption, cultural capital, education, and age have the greatest impact on explaining the body image, with the first one (body management) having the most powerful effect. In order to test major and minor theoretical pattern, structural equation modeling was used. Top fitting indicators suggest that the data support the theoretical foundations very well.
