%0 Journal Article
%T Body image perception among multi-ethnic male university students
%A Body image perception among multi-ethnic male university students
%J Jurnal Kemanusiaan
%D 2011
%I Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
%X The present study aimed to investigate student self-rating towards body dissatisfaction, drive formuscularity and self-esteem, as well as to investigate their relationship. Results from a sample of293 male students from University Malaysia Sabah showed a significant positive relationshipbetween body dissatisfaction and drive for muscularity (r = .22, p < .01). An interesting result wasthat body dissatisfaction is positively correlated with higher self-esteem (r = .142, p <.05), whichwas assumed that body dissatisfaction alone was a poor predictor of self-esteem. Culture has itsrole affecting the values people place on different aspects of the body. By using One-way ANOVA,study found the significant ethnic difference in body dissatisfaction (F(3, 289) = 3.779, p < .05) anddrive for muscularity (F(3, 289) = 5.116, p < .05). However, the majority of them hold positiveperception to their body parts, exhibiting a healthy body image perception
%K Keywords: male body image perception
%K body dissatisfaction
%K self-esteem ethnic difference
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