The Relations Between Physical Exercise and Body Shame among College Students in China

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10.2991/assehr.k.210806.198How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Body shame, Physical exercise, College students

Abstract

Contemporarily, Chinese college students reduce their satisfaction unconsciously because of the deviation of reality from the ideal with the impact of “standard of beauty”. Specifically, anxiety, low self-esteem and lack of confidence, are the expression of body shame may follow. In this paper, we examine the relationship between body shame and physical activity among Chinese college students oriented towards a higher mental health level. As a result of our research, we found that body shame negatively affects physical activity, and that physical activity reduces people’s body shame. Through this study, we hope to gain a better understanding of the relationship between body shame and physical activity among university students.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mengshi Gu
AU  - Xinyi Huang
AU  - Xiajun Ye
AU  - Shuning Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - The Relations Between Physical Exercise and Body Shame among College Students in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1051
EP  - 1055
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.198
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.198
ID  - Gu2021
ER  -