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Gender ethnic and age influences on the self-perception of their body in schoolchildren

Zadorozhnaya L.V.,Romashko K.S.,Godina E.Z.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Zadorozhnaya L.V., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3143-3226, e-mail: mumla@rambler.ru; Romashko K.S., e-mail: anthropos.msu@mail.ru; Godina E.Z., D.Sc., prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0692-420X, e-mail: egodina11@gmail.com

Abstract

In 2008-9 schoolchildren (boys and girls from 7 to 17 years of age) in the cities of Akrhangelsk and Elista were examined. The program included anthropometric measurements, antroposcopic methods, evaluation of somatotypes, and questionnaires. Relationships between morphological characteristics, self-evaluation of one’s own physical attractiveness and the choice of a strategy for body modification have been studied. Self-ratings in girls of higher grades of Russian and Kalmyk ethnicities were compared. As a result, 1) significant associations were found between self-ratings and somatotype of the individual, as well as her BMI value; 2) higher than in boys and an increasing with age critical attitude of the girls towards their bodies was found; they also showed more interest in the weight control; 3) similarities in the standards of an “ideal body shape” and similar self-ratings were revealed in the schoolgirls of higher grades.

Keywords

anthropology, somatic status, self-esteem indicators, school-age children, Russian, Kalmyks

Цит.: Zadorozhnaya L.V.,Romashko K.S.,Godina E.Z. Gender ethnic and age influences on the self-perception of their body in schoolchildren // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 3/2015; с. 47-58