Recently, low weight is being embossed as a serious problem which is one of the abnormal weight concepts as well as obesity mainly in teenagers. In Korea, the low weight is not perceived as an important problem, but it is rapidly expanding related to ...
Recently, low weight is being embossed as a serious problem which is one of the abnormal weight concepts as well as obesity mainly in teenagers. In Korea, the low weight is not perceived as an important problem, but it is rapidly expanding related to the features of the developing course of the teenagers. So, we consider that it is necessary to guide the teenagers to have right weight perception that healthy and appropriate weight is beautiful together with the right perception about their own body shapes. Therefore, in this paper, we investigated the body perception, abnormal weight, attitude toward weight control and related factors to eating behavior among the teenage girls who are considered as the dangerous group of overt body weight control behavior. This study was carried out to investigate self-image on the ody of the teenage girls For that purpose, we interviewed individual 600 of 2nd grade of middle school gilrs students in Daegu and analyzed body component using Inbody 3.0.