INVESTIGATING OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND BODY IMAGE IN PRE-SERVİCE TEACHERS
ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARINDA ÖZSAYGI İLE BEDEN İMAJI ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Author : Ahmet KARA
Number of pages : 116-123

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and body image. Self –esteem was taken as independent variable and body image was taken as dependent variable. Participants are 259 pre-service teacher who enrolled in a public university at Eskişehir. Two dimentional Self-Esteem Scale and Body-Cathexis Scale were used to collect the data. Simple linear regression tecnique was used to analyze the data. The research results demonstrated that self-competence and self-liking negatively related with negative body image. The less a person has self-competence and self-liking, the more the person a the more negative body image. According to the research results, self-liking and self-competence are significant variables to explain negative body image.

Keywords

self-esteem, body image, self-liking, self-competence, pre-service teachers

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