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KMID : 0644120080210020214
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Journal of Oriental Gynecology
2008 Volume.21 No. 2 p.214 ~ p.231
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The Comparative Study of the Actual, the Perceptive and the Ideal Body Shape of the Obese Female and the Non-obese Female in their Twenties and Thirties
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Park Hyun-Jung
Yang Jeong-Min
Jin Yong-Jae
Kim Dong-Il
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is a comparative study of the actual, the perceptive and the ideal body shape of the obese and non-obese female in their twenties and thirties.
Methods: The actual, the perceptive and the ideal body shape of the obese female and the non-obese female were collected and statistically analyzed in 25-34 years old.
Results: In 25-29 years old the obese group and the non-obese group shows considerable difference in the weight, abdomen, calf circumstance in their actual body shape, but they recognize similar size as their ideal body shape in the hip, thigh and calf circumstances. They recognized that they are fatter than the actual body shape in the thigh, hip, and calf circumstances in common. In 30-34 years old the obese group and the non-obese group shows considerable difference in the weight, upper arm, abdomen, hip, thigh, calf circumstances in the actual body shape, but they recognize similar size as their ideal body shape in the thigh, hip, and calf circumstances. They recognized that they are fatter than the actual body shape in the weight, upper arm circumstances in common.
Conclusion: These new data about body shape in 25-34 years women could be adopt as a useful clinical tool for body image related patients such as obesity, PCOD and postpartum patient in Korean women.
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KEYWORD
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Body shape, Obesity, women
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