Risk Factors for Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescent Girls: A Longitudinal Investigation

Over the years, people got the idea of ​​having a perfect body. The media promises to achieve an ideal organization vision on a global scale. It does not appear to be an extreme problem, but there are many impacts behind the scenes. Article, Risk Factors for Dissatisfaction of Teenage Girls: A longitudinal study by Eric Stice and Kathryn Whitenton was chosen article. It was published in Journal of Developmental Psychology and published in July 2002.

In longitudinal studies, sex difference in physical discontent occurred between the ages of 13 and 15 and remained at the age of 18. During this period the girls increased and the boy mitigated the physical dissatisfaction. However, recent studies have suggested that more and more adolescent boys tend to exercise, eat, and steroids to stick to the social and personal philosophy of a more robust body It is. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between physical dissatisfaction and self-assessment health. In particular, I would like to identify the differences in gender and age, and I would like to validate the hypothesis that physical dissatisfaction is likely to adversely affect health on girls and elderly groups. Finally, our goal is to convert our findings into a sustainable strategy and address these issues in school health services and interdisciplinary work.

This study is based on a part of a longitudinal epidemiological study of the school and is investigating the risk factors and adverse effects of Internet use and addiction of children and adolescents. Part of research on various topics is published elsewhere (Chen et al., 2015). This survey included four wave data for the 11 month study period (from the beginning of March 2013 to January 2014). Students in the 3rd and 5th graders entered six elementary schools and 8th grade students enter the middle school in northern Taiwan. The age range is 8 to 12 years (mean ± SD = 8.6 ± 0.3 years), 10 to 12 years (mean ± SD = 10.6 ± 0.3 years) and 13 to 16 years (in case of grade 3, 5 and 8). Students each mean SD = 13.6 ± 0.3 years old These schools are selected under the cooperation of the principal.

Researchers who are writing this journal are interested in understanding how physical discontent, eating disorders and self-esteem of adolescent girls affect life concerns and leisure activities I will. "In this study, we first examined the relative importance of some life problems and the satisfaction of slim and physical appeal of adolescent girls" (2). The author of this magazine hopes to place girls' physical discontent and self-esteem in the context of what they think is important or what they do. The problem raised in the experiment is what is the main life problem of adolescent girls? How do life problems and leisure activities affect physical dissatisfaction and eating disorders? How do life problems and leisure activities affect the global self esteem of adolescent girls? Many studies document widespread complaints of women and concerns about the weight and appearance of women.