Kabir Yearul, Zafar Tasleem A, Waslien Carol
a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Dhaka , Dhaka , Bangladesh.
Women Health. 2013;53(7):693-705. doi: 10.1080/03630242.2013.831017.
The associations between body image and attitudes toward obesity and thinness and their associations with measured body mass index (BMI) among female students of Kuwait University (n = 137) was examined in 2008. The body image perceptions were assessed using nine female silhouettes figures. The difference between current perceived body image (PBI) and ideal body image (IBI) was used as a measure of body image dissatisfaction (BID). Students tended to have a bigger PBI and smaller IBI than would be expected from their BMI category, leading to high levels of BID in each BMI category. PBI, IBI, BID, RBI were highly correlated with each other, and BMI was significantly correlated with each of them. The coefficients of these associations were not significantly altered in multiple regression analysis by the addition of potential confounding variables, such as age, marital status, physical activity, dieting behavior, parental education, and family size. These results suggest that PBI and a desire to be thinner were strongly related to BID and that thinness is becoming more desired in Kuwaiti society than the plump body image of the past.
2008年，对科威特大学137名女学生的身体形象与对肥胖和消瘦的态度之间的关联，以及它们与测量的体重指数（BMI）之间的关联进行了研究。使用九个女性轮廓图评估身体形象认知。当前感知身体形象（PBI）与理想身体形象（IBI）之间的差异被用作身体形象不满（BID）的衡量指标。学生的PBI往往比根据其BMI类别预期的要大，而IBI则比预期的要小，导致每个BMI类别中的BID水平都很高。PBI、IBI、BID、RBI之间高度相关，BMI与它们中的每一个都显著相关。通过添加潜在的混杂变量，如年龄、婚姻状况、身体活动、节食行为、父母教育程度和家庭规模，在多元回归分析中，这些关联的系数没有显著改变。这些结果表明，PBI和想要更瘦的愿望与BID密切相关，并且在科威特社会，消瘦比过去丰满的身体形象更受青睐。
