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A study was undertaken to determine the influence of the disease or operation on the body image of adult. Body image, as a means of body to itself, would be changed continuously by growth, disease, accident or environmental factors. In adults Body Image is threatened by disease and operation, and changed the established characteristics, or leads to loss of self-esteen. Therefore, this study was to compare the importance of body parts with change of body image due to disease or operation between normal adults and patients. In this study, samples are 119 patients admissioned into medical, surgical wards of C University Hospital, H University Hospital and 126 Normal adults. The tool used in this study is made by itself for measurement of body image, it is base upon the body Cathexis Scale by Secord and Jourard, Semantic Differential Scale by Osgood and Free word thinking method. Data gathering was performed from April 1, 1983 to April 30, 1983. and when data analysis mean, standard deviation, t-test and spearman’s rank correlation were used. Results of the study are as follows: 1. Hypothesis(1) is selected that "The patients’ group has more negative body image than Normal Asults’ Grou.(BC Scale: t=2.84 P<0.01, SD Scale: t=6.71 P<0.001) 2. Hypothesis(2) is selected that "Medical patients’ group has more negative body image than normal adults’ group"(BC Scale: t= 1. 81 p<0. 1, SD Scale: 5. 61 p<0. 001) 3. Hypothesis(3) is selected that "Surgical patients’ group has more negative body image than normal adults’ group." (BC Scale: t=2.65 p<0. O5, SD Scale: t=5.37 p<0. 001) 4. Hypothesis (4) is not selected that "Surgical patients’ group has more negative body image than medical patients group."(BC Scale: t= -0.47 P>0.05, SD Scale: t= -1.07 P>0.05) 5. Hypothesis(5) is not selected that "In patients, the group with pain has more negative body image than the group without pain."(BC Scale: t= -1.38 P>0.05, SD Scale: t=-1.07 P>0.05) 6. Hypothesis(6) is selected that "In normal, adults, the group with pain has the negative body image than the group without pain. "(BC Scale: t= -1.25 p<0.05. SD Scale: t= -2.55 p<0.05) 7. Hypothesis (7) is selected that "In total group, the group with fain has the negative body image than the group without pain,"(BC Scale: t= -1. 93 p<0. 1, SD Scale: t= -2. 19 p<0.05) 8. Hypothesis (8) is not selected that "In patients, the group with admission experience has the negative body image than the group without admission experience,"(BC Scale: t =-0.30 p>0.05, SD Scale: t= 1.03 p>0.05) 9. Hypothesis(9) is not selected that "In normal adults, the group with admission experience has the negative body image than the group without admission experience. " (BC Scale: t= -1. 19 P>0. 05, SD Scale: t= -0. 96 p>0.05) 10. Hypothesis (10) is not selected that "in total group the group with admission experience has the negative body image than the group without admission experience."(BC Scale: t= -0.97 P>0.05,SD Scale: t=0.52 p>0.05) 11. Hypothesis(11) is selected that "In patients, female has the negative body image that male."(BC Scale: t=2.06 p<0.05) 12. Hypothesis(12) is selected that "In normal adult, female has the negative body image than male."(BC Scale: t=2.57p<0.05) 13. Hypothesis(13) is selected that "In total group, female has more negative body image than male". (BC Scale: t =2.60 P<0. 0l) 14. Hypothesis(14) is selected that "Body part, which tested by free word thinking method, is not influenced by disease and operation" (r= 0.9528 r=0.9515 p<0. 001) It is concluded that disease and operation lead to change the negative body image in adults, but the priority of importance of all parts of body is not effected by (disease and operation.
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