A Study on Negative Physical Self Status-quo of Rural Middle School Students and Intervention

Abstract

This paper explored the negative physical self-status-quo of middle school students in the background of the school, aiming to find out the intervention program for different negative physical self. Method: It randomly selected students of 6 classes in a middle school in Xianning, Hubei Province, and NPSS scale was employed to measure the negative physical self-status of middle school students. Result: In these five dimensions, middle school students are most dissatisfied with the general feature (⎯x =3.266), followed by the feature of short in stature (⎯x =2.372). They show satisfaction at the appearance dimension (⎯x =1.965), fat dimension (⎯x =1.981) and thinness dimension. There is a significant difference in the general feature between male students and female students, and the score of females is higher than that of male (male=15.64, female=17.03, t=-3.074, p=0.002). The difference between male and female students at the fat dimension has statistical significance (Male=20.78, Female=23.08, t=-2.36, p=0.19). The difference between rural and urban students at the thinness dimension has statistical significance (urban students=16.06, rural students=17.84, t=2.43, p=0.15).