Recently, Korea is getting interested in the body. Sport activity is the most proper way to improve the health and body image. Sports promote the harmonious body development and keep people in shape. That is the role and value of sport. To have positi...
Recently, Korea is getting interested in the body. Sport activity is the most proper way to improve the health and body image. Sports promote the harmonious body development and keep people in shape. That is the role and value of sport. To have positive evaluation on sport participants about their own body shape, objectified body consciousness like the feature of individual body is necessary. As a primary factor, this study expects to clarify the relation between body-esteem and physical self-evaluation and self-perception like the one’s self-esteem. It also expects to clarify the relation between the cause and effect of the psychological emotion influenced and these factors fulfilling people’s routine life.
The subjects were 395 residences out of sport groups participated and 390 residences out of group un-participated. Total 785 residences are living at Gyung-gi in Seoul. The method of sampling was convenience sampling among non-probability.
The result of analysis using SPSS (V.15.0), AMOS (V7.0) program is as below.
First, objectified body consciousness like body surveillant and body shame is higher in the sport participant comparing to non-sport participants.
Second, in the self-value, sport participants showed higher body-esteem, but self-esteem which self-perception showed no difference among them.
Third, sport participants highly perceived positive emotion like the vitality. Non-sport participants highly perceived negative emotions like anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, confusion factors.
Fourth, sport participants showed that their body surveillant, body shame and control belief influenced on self-value. body surveillant influenced both positive emotion like vitality and negative emotion like depression. The body shame on body only influence all factors of psychological emotion. Control belief only influenced positive emotion like vitality and negative emotion like fatigue. In the analysis of the relation between the cause and the effect of Sport participants’ objectified body consciousness, self-value, psychological emotion and body shame about their body influenced anxiety, depression, and anger considerably. Body surveillant showed considerable influence on vitality. In addition, body-esteem showed considerable influence on anxiety, depression, fatigue, and confusion.
Fifth, non-sport participants showed that their body surveillant and body shame about their body influence on self-value. Body surveillant about body only influenced vitality. Body shame about body influenced on negative emotion like anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue, confusion. Control belief influenced all psychological factors. These results were comparably opposite. In the analysis of the relation between the cause and the effect of Non-sport participants’ objectified body consciousness, self-value and psychological emotion, body shame influenced on anxiety, depression, anger, fatigue and confusion, body surveillant considerably influenced on confusion. Body-esteem considerably influenced vitality.
As conclusion, sport participants positively perceive themselves on body surveillant about body avoiding negative evaluation of others, and self-evaluation about their appearance. It means that healthy body positively influence on emotional health and self-vale in individuals’ life.