(1.School of Physical Education and Health,Zhejiang Normal University,Jinhua 321004,China;2.School of Education,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310028,China) Abstract: By using multidimensional body and self relation questionnaire as a tool, the authors investigated 4 high schools in Zhejiang province, and revealed the following findings: (1) except appearance orientation and disease orientation, sexual difference has a significant effect on all other dimensions of the body image of high school stu-dents; the appearance evaluation, stamina evaluation, health evaluation, degree of satisfaction with various body parts, stamina concern and health concern of male students are significantly higher than the same of female students; (2) except that there is no significant sexual difference in the degree of satisfaction with hair, male student’s degrees of satisfaction with other body parts are significantly higher than the same of female students; (3) regular exercise has a significant effect on appearance evaluation, stamina evaluation, health evaluation and stamina orientation, yet it has no significant effect on other body image constituting dimensions. Key words: exercise psychology;body image;regular exercise;body mass index;middle school student |