Abstract
The purpose of this study was verified that body image perception could affect to sport participation through self-esteem, and sport participation could have feedback effect also. Data were collected by convenience sampling method from 542 sports participating persons who over 17 ages. The survey method was used, and the data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model by SPSS Ver.15.0 and AMOS 7.0. The results were as following. First, appearance satisfactions from others influenced on sport participations through positive and negative self-esteem. Second, sport participations had feedback effect on body image satisfactions through positive self-esteem. Overall path had not a simple reflect path, but it was a circulation structure. Satisfactions of appearance, which had complex recognition, were affected both of positive and negative self-esteem. Then, self-esteem lead to sport participates, and these sport participations had feedback effect on body image perception through positive self-esteem.
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