Perceived Fear of Obesity and Body Dissatisfaction among Pakistani female Hostelite Students
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2017
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University of Management and Technology
Abstract
Basic aim of the study is to investigate the psychological implications of fear of obesity and body dissatisfaction experienced by the female hostelite students.For data collection, two screening questionaires and 6 semi-structured interviews were conducted. IPA was used for data analysis.6 Hostelite women (aged 18 to 27) were interviewed having perceived fears of obesity and body dissatisfaction in them. Results revealed that there are many reasons of these fears like Bullying, disliking of people, marriage problem, health issues, difficulty in fashion persuation and rune beauty standards. It also revealed that stress, aggression, bad mood, distrcted mind, ruining relationships and bad behavior are the negative consequences of Fears of obesity and body dissatisfaction. They use different measures to lose weight as dieting, excersice, gym, home remidies, medicine use and consult nutritionist to control weight. Lastly hostel contribute to increase fear of obesity and body dissatisfaction because it has low quality food, lack of time, household works, carelessness in eating, comparison to other girls and bullying, privacy problem, limited space, relations with roommate and lack of facilities. This study suggests that bullying and obesity stigmatization palys an important role to distrube the mental health of obese people and increasing the perceived fear of obesity and body dissatisfaction in people. People follow many measures to lose weight but the other people's behavior and bullying negatively affect them and discouraged them. They try to find the happiness and satisfaction which are not present in their lives because of the trend and standereds of the society about body and figure. These fears are very dangeorous for their mental health.
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Supervised by: Ms. Saira Munsaf Khan
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Hostelite women, Obesity and body dissatisfaction, M.sc Thesis