Body Structure and Physical Self-Concept in Early Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Zsakai, Annamaria; Karkus, Zsolt; Utczas, Katinka; Bodzsar, Eva B.
Titel	Body Structure and Physical Self-Concept in Early Adolescence
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 37 (2017) 3, S.316-338 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431615602757
Schlagwörter	Early Adolescents; Self Concept; Body Composition; Regression (Statistics); Correlation; Body Height; Body Weight; Nutrition; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Self Concept Measures; Obesity; Statistical Analysis; Factor Analysis; Hungary; Tennessee Self Concept Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Korrelation; Körpergröße; Körpergewicht; Ernährung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Adipositas; Statistische Analyse; Faktorenanalyse; Ungarn
Abstract	In adolescence, the complexity of human ontogenesis embraces biological growth and maturation as well as mental, affective, and cognitive progress, and adaptation to the requirements of society. To accept our morphological constellation as part of our gender may prove a problem even to a child of average rate of maturation. The main purposes of the present study were to compare selected body shape factors of early adolescents belonging to different physical self-concept subgroups, and to identify those somatic factors that have the strongest influence on the physical self-concept. A randomly selected subsample of the 2nd Hungarian National Growth Study formed the sample of the analysis. Besides the anthropometric investigations, the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale was administered to altogether 2,140 adolescents (aged 11-14). The multinominal logistic regression was used to reveal the relationship between absolute body dimensions, relative body dimensions, nutritional status, body mass components, body shape, and physical self-concept. The better the physical self-concept, the less the fatness was found in both sexes. In early adolescents, having negative physical self-concept endomorphy was significantly larger than in their age-peers with good self-concept. The presumed fact that obesity is not popular in adolescence has been confirmed by this study. However, the underweight nutritional status was attractive in the girls. These results informed us about the considerable influence of the pubertal-not-normal nutritional status on the discrepancy between the ideal and actual self-concepts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01