The purpose of this study was to investigate the Social Physique Anxiety scale(SPAS) and the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire(PSDQ) among Lean Group, Slim Group, Normal Group, Fattish Group, and Fatty Group of 332 middle school students by the ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Social Physique Anxiety scale(SPAS) and the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire(PSDQ) among Lean Group, Slim Group, Normal Group, Fattish Group, and Fatty Group of 332 middle school students by the Korean Versions of the SPAS and the PSDQ. The results are as follows; On the Social Physique Anxiety, there was a significant difference with the main effect of Group(p< .05). Normal Group was lower than any other group and Fatty Group was higher than all the other groups. There was not a significant difference with the main effect of Gender. On the Physical Self-Description. boys were higher than girls in the scores of self-perceptions of physical activity, health, endurance, and sports competence. And Lean and Normal Groups were higher than the other Groups in the scores of self-perceptions of body fat, attractiveness, health, self esteem, flexibility, endurance, and global physical. Finally, body fat and self esteem showed high negative correlation coefficients with social physique anxiety for both boys and girls.