The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of body image on self-esteem and dance performance ability of art high school students majoring in dance. Using a purposive sampling method and the questionnaire based on previous study, 443 stude...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of body image on self-esteem and dance performance ability of art high school students majoring in dance. Using a purposive sampling method and the questionnaire based on previous study, 443 students majoring in dance were selected from art high schools in Seoul, Daejeon, Kyung-gi, Chung-nam and Chung-buk Province. The method of the statistical analysis used in this study were one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and path analysis. The conclusion of this study were as follows. First, according to gender, dance career and performance frequency of personal characteristics, there were significant differences in self-esteem and dance performance ability. Second, the body image of art high school students influenced on self-esteem significantly. Physical attractiveness influenced on positive self-esteem and it also negatively influenced on negative self-esteem. Concern of weight and unconcern of appearance influenced on negative self-esteem and they also negatively influenced on positive self-esteem. Third, body image influenced on dance performance ability significantly. Concern of appearance influenced on achievement and confidence of dance performance ability. Physical attractiveness influenced on achievement, concentration and confidence of dance performance ability. Unconcern of appearance influenced on concentration of dance performance and it also negatively influenced on confidence of dance performance. Forth, self-esteem influenced on dance performance ability significantly. Positive self-esteem influenced on achievement, concentration and confidence of dance performance. Negative self-esteem influenced on achievement of dance performance ability. Fifth, there were causal relationship among body image, self-esteem and dance performance ability. To sum up the above results, body image of art high school students majoring in dance influenced on dance performance ability directly. Also, body image had positively indirect influence on dance performance ability through self-esteem.