Self Esteem And Body Among Students Studying At Professional And Non Professional Courses

1. Body image (how you think you look to other people) is an important part of your self-concept and self-esteem. This is especially true during adolescence. Because of the rapid changes taking place, many adolescents are dissatisfied with their bodies. Think back to high school. How did you feel about your body? How do you think these early adolescent feelings have affected how you feel about yourself now?

What is body image?Body image is how you see your body and how you feel about it. You can have a negative body image or a positive body image.A negative body image is when you don’t like your body and think that only other people are beautiful and you are self conscious about your body. Positive Body image is appreciating

“Body image” states to the mental picture that you have of the way you appearance.

Body image is defined as the subjective picture or mental image of one's own body, which greatly differs among fit and unfit individuals. Body image has a powerful affect on all. “Negative body image has grown to almost epidemic proportions in the past 20 years, with as many as 60 percent of adults in national

believed that both self-esteem of an individual as well as their body satisfaction are affected by

Body image is defined as “the subjective image of one’s physical appearance established both by self-observation and observation by others” ("Body Image"). “Ideal” body image is constantly re-evaluated throughout the ages. Unfortunately, today, the ideal image is at its height in the American culture. Many factors, such as magazine articles, television shows, and even childhood toys are said to have an influence on body dissatisfaction. This negative self-image has caused many dangerous disorders in women and men of all ages. In the research of this topic, there are many questions of body image among cultures and stereotypes that are yet to be answered.

The topic of body image is an issue that we see amongst many adolescents all around the world. This huge issue can be dealt by adults but the main victim of body imaging are adolescents. Everywhere, anyone goes, there is example of what society considers “beautiful.” Even if someone is not completely studying it, their subconscious is still registering all of the images and words to what society thinks is a perfect body. Everyday there are people that walk by magazines in stores, drive by billboards with models, and watch television commercials with the skinny girl or buff guy. It is just something people see in their everyday life and is something that is hard to get away from. With all of the hints here and there, it is hard to not think about your own self-image and lose a little bit of self-esteem. Adolescents are more vulnerable to getting self-conscious because that is when we as humans are starting to figure out our own bodies, so when these young adults see a skinny girl on the cover of a magazine with the words “beautiful” or “hot” next to them, they start to question if they can fit in those categories.

There are both positive and negative points to body image. Positive body images is accepting one’s body and looks (Ahmet, Ahmet 171). For example, there could be a girl wo may not look appealing to other people, but to herself she may think she is very appealing. Negative body image causes a dissatisfaction of their body and fear of romantic intimacy (Ahmet, Ahmet 171). For example, a girl may believe she is the ugliest person on the planet and she cannot have intimate relations with anyone because she feels they will not find her body attractive. A lot of body image stems from

What is body image? Body image is how we perceive ourselves positively or negatively, how we feel about our bodies, the amount of physical space we take up, and how others view us. According to Brown University 's Health Promotion, “body image is a widespread preoccupation” (Health Promotion: Body Image, 2008). In the same article a study was conducted with college students, 74.4% of normal weight women expressed that they think about their appearance is frequently at 46% of normal weight men expressed that they often think about their body weight too (Health Promotion: Body Image, 2008).

How you see your body is your perceptual body image. For example, a person may recognise themselves as overweight, whereas, they are underweight.

“When you accept yourself the whole world accepts you.”Self-esteem is used to describe a person 's sense of self-worth. Self-esteem can involve different of beliefs about themselves, such as belittling their own beliefs, appearance and behaviors. Body image is your own attitude towards your body. It’s how you see yourself, how you think and feel about the way you look. Self-esteem and body image can also be influenced by age, your own beliefs, as well as those of society, social media, and your peers.

The best way to solve a problem is to know exactly what the issue is. So what is body image? Body image is, “How individuals feel about their physical appearances” (Brown University 1). Body image can be affected by more than one media outlet. These outlets include the traditional media like magazines and TV shows. However, new outlets have been introduced like social media, this media can be so damaging because it is easily accessible to all types of people from ranging ages.

The goal of this study is to observe how the physical state perceived by the individual affects the psychological and emotional states that they incorporate into their everyday lives. From the participants evaluation a greater focus will be on the relations of self-assessment to an individual’s confidence and self-esteem level. The link between these aspects can possibly shed light on how decisions and lives are altered by self-interpreted appearance, specifically body image. In addition, there is evidence which supports the theory that body image dissatisfaction affects both genders. By creating and enhancing a positive body image, a person greatly increases their self-esteem (Ratanasiripong & Burkey, 2011).

Self-esteem is all about the thought feeling and emotion regarding how an individual thinks about himself or herself. Self-esteem may lead to positive impact as well as negative consequences (Claiborne, & Sirgy 2015). For

Body image only refers to one’s physical structure, shape, size or height, which in other terms, merely represents the outer persona of an individual. For this reason, when some individual judges another based on their body type, body language or dressing style they are not merely judging the individual's physical structure or body type itself, but also their appearance and other traits. With this in mind, if we compare body image itself with appearance, the two attributes are very similar, yet so different. Being that, appearance describes one’s facial features which