20대 여성의 신체 만족도 및 이상형(理想型) 에 관한 연구 : 1992년도와 1997년도의 비교 = A Study on the Degree of Satisfaction of Body Cathexis and Ideal Body Shape of 18 to 25 Year - Old Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to study real body size and ideal body shape by considering the relations of between the degree of satisfaction and consciousness of body cathexis and real body size, and to understand change of the degree of satisfaction at body part and ideal body shape with the changes of the times by comparing the date taken at 1997 to that taken at 1992. The subjects in this study were 542 and 201 female college students aged from 18 to 25. Body measurements and survery were taken from April to June, 1997 and May to June, 1992. Data were analyzed by correlation analysis, ANOVA, duncan test and crosstabulation analysis.
The results were as follows;
(1) The subjects tended to be satisfied with long and slim limbs, slim trunk, and preferred to be tall in height and light in weight. But, exceptionally, they tended to be unstatisfied with small bust as well as big one.
(2) The subjects want to be slimmer lower body than upper body.
(3) The subject of 1997 was more statisfied with tall height, light weight, slim limbs and narrow shoulder than those of 1992. Also, the subjects of 1997 want to be taller in height than the subjects of 1992.
(4) The ideal body shape of the subject of 1997 was slim body while that of the subject of 1992 was big bust and wasp waist.
(5) The subject of 1997 was more satisfied with leanner body than that of 1992.