Folk L, Pedersen J, Cullari S
Psychology Department, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003.
Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Apr;76(2):547-53. doi: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.2.547.
Pubertal development has been implicated as the point of origin for decreased body satisfaction and self-concept for girls from prepubertal levels and an increase in body satisfaction and self-concept for boys. Two groups of boys and girls in Grades 3 and 6 completed a Body Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Piers-Harris Self-concept Scale to test this assumption. The third graders were considered to be prepubertal and sixth graders as early pubertal. The sixth-grade boys scored lower on body satisfaction than third-grade boys, and their self-concept scores were positively correlated with body satisfaction scores. For girls, body satisfaction scores were correlated with self-concept in both grades, and few significant differences were found between grades. For girls apparently the relationship between body satisfaction and self-concept may be present before the onset of puberty.
青春期发育被认为是女孩身体满意度和自我概念从青春期前水平下降、男孩身体满意度和自我概念增加的起源点。两组三年级和六年级的男孩和女孩完成了一份身体满意度问卷和皮尔斯 - 哈里斯自我概念量表，以检验这一假设。三年级学生被认为处于青春期前，六年级学生处于青春期早期。六年级男孩在身体满意度方面的得分低于三年级男孩，并且他们的自我概念得分与身体满意度得分呈正相关。对于女孩来说，两个年级的身体满意度得分都与自我概念相关，且年级之间未发现显著差异。显然，对于女孩来说，身体满意度和自我概念之间的关系可能在青春期开始之前就存在了。
