Body image and social identity: How it affects obese female adolescents' self-esteem

• Main Authors: Fojas, Rossanna V., Montecillo, Joshua-Emmanuel P., Esguerra, Jillian Elaine D.G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Body image; Body, Human > Social aspects; Beauty, Personal > Psychological aspects; Self-esteem; Stigma (Social psychology); Women > Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6402
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study intended to find out whether the variables body image and social identity can cause change on the self esteem of twenty-four (24) obese female adolescent students of the De La Salle University - Manila. This quantitative research made use of a quasi-experiment in order to manipulate the t...