Show/Hide Menu
Hide/Show Apps
Logout
Türkçe
Türkçe
Search
Search
Login
Login
OpenMETU
OpenMETU
About
About
Open Science Policy
Open Science Policy
Open Access Guideline
Open Access Guideline
Postgraduate Thesis Guideline
Postgraduate Thesis Guideline
Communities & Collections
Communities & Collections
Help
Help
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Guides
Guides
Thesis submission
Thesis submission
MS without thesis term project submission
MS without thesis term project submission
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission with DOI
Publication submission
Publication submission
Supporting Information
Supporting Information
General Information
General Information
Copyright, Embargo and License
Copyright, Embargo and License
Contact us
Contact us
Critical Factors of Social Physique Anxiety: Exercising and Body Image Satisfaction
Date
2008-01-01
Author
Atalay, Ayse Altan
Gençöz, Tülin
Metadata
Show full item record
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
.
Item Usage Stats
231
views
0
downloads
Cite This
This study aimed to examine the critical roles of exercising and body image satisfaction on social physique anxiety (SPA) among female university students. For this aim, 118 female university students, 58 of whom exercised regularly, participated in the study. The Social Physique Anxiety Scale, Eating Attitudes Test, and Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale were administered to the participants; their dieting habits were also investigated. Results revealed that approximately half of the participants used at least one unhealthy weight control method in the past 6 months. An analysis of covariance, indicated that, after controlling for the effects of abnormal eating behavior, participants who were dissatisfied with their body image and did not participate in a regular exercise activity experienced higher social physique anxiety. However, such a tendency was not found for social anxiety. Thus, these characteristics seem to be specific to social physique anxiety. It Was concluded that individuals who have negative view of their appearance were more prone to experience SPA, and they might be avoiding exercise for self presentational purposes. Findings were discussed in the light of literature.
Subject Keywords
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
,
Clinical Psychology
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38006
Journal
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1375/bech.25.3.178
Collections
Department of Psychology, Article
Suggestions
OpenMETU
Core
Changes in the global self-concept of women through physical fitness training and group counseling
Asci, F. Hulya; Akkok, Fusun (SAGE Publications, 2007-12-01)
The purpose was to test whether physical fitness training combined with group counseling was more effective for enhancing self-concept of women university Students than counseling, fitness training, or a control condition. 68 women students (M-age = 21.1 yr., SD = 15) voluntarily participated. The physical fitness group, the group counseling group, the physical fitness training combined with group counseling group, and the lecture control group were formed by the Students of two intact classes, General Phys...
Individual differences in statistics anxiety among college students
Baloğlu, Mustafa (Elsevier BV, 2003-04-01)
The present study investigated differences in statistics anxiety levels based on students' gender and age. Using the statistics anxiety scores of 246 college students, a 2 x 3 between-subjects factorial multivariate analysis of covariance was performed on the six dependent variables (worth of statistics, interpretation anxiety, test and class anxiety, computational self-concept, fear of asking for help, and fear of statistics teachers) that were hypothesized to be six dimensions of statistics anxiety. Indep...
University students’ attitudes toward seeking psychological help : effects of perceived social support, psychological distress, prior help-seeking experience and gender
Çebi, Esra; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz; Department of Educational Sciences (2009)
The main purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of perceived social support, psychological distress, prior help-seeking experience, and gender on attitudes toward seeking psychological help of university students. In addition to the main purpose; gender, faculty, living arrangement, and year of study differences in attitudes toward seeking psychological help and students’ knowledge about the psychological counseling services of the METU Health and Guidance Center were investigated. The sampl...
Route learning in a computer game
Kokdemir, D (1996-04-01)
The present experiment was conducted to find out whether 20 male and 20 female undergraduates made more errors if their previously learned route were reversed. The results confirmed this expectation, that is, subjects made significantly more errors when they mere rested on a reverse route than subjects given the original route. Results were discussed with reference to conceptualization as a ''map in the head'' and implications for other research were noted.
Known-groups validity of the translated version of self-monitoring: A comparison of conservatoire students and university students
Öner Özkan, Bengi (SAGE Publications, 2007-06-01)
The aim of this study was to test the known-groups validity of the Turkish translation of Snyder's 1974 Self-monitoring Scale by administering a translated version to 151 first-year university students (85 men, 66 women) and 39 first year conservatoire students from the School of Theatre (18 men, 21 women). The mean score of the latter group was higher than the mean for regular university students. The finding was regarded as an indicator of known-groups validity.
Citation Formats
IEEE
ACM
APA
CHICAGO
MLA
BibTeX
A. A. Atalay and T. Gençöz, “Critical Factors of Social Physique Anxiety: Exercising and Body Image Satisfaction,”
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
, pp. 178–188, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38006.