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A Study on Value and Perceptual Judgement of Physique

&nbsp;&nbsp;I surveyed value and perceptual judgement of physique of 1599 college students(male 918, female 681) for the six months from June 1993 through November 1993, The survey contained the following: 1) Sex and age, 2) recent physique(height and weight), 3) value and perceptual judgement of one&quot;s own physique, 4) want for one&quot;s own physiue, and 5) physique that one assumes to be national averages of his own age, and ideal physique.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results from the survey are as follows:<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;1. physiques<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;1) The height and weight of college students are greater than the national average height and weight of each age group.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;2) As for value and perceptual judgement of their present physique, college students of each age group tend to think that they are short buy heavy<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;3) As for their physique, college students of each age group want to get more tall but less heavy than now.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;4) The assumed national averages of each age group are close to the real national averages:however, the height is a little higher while the weight is a little lower.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;5) As for ideal physique of each age group, the height is greater than students&quot; present height or the national average, while the weight is lower:their ideal physique are close to the height and weight studints want to have.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Physique based on value and perceptual judgement<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;1) To compare 5 divisions of value and perceptual judgement and 5 levels of objective evaluation, it is clear that studints consider themselves to be ‘of the medium’ or ‘short’ in height, and in weight to be ‘fat’ or ‘of the medium’ :they tend to undersetimate their height and overestimate their weight.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;2) As for students who judged their height as ‘very tall’, ‘tell’ or ‘of the medium’, their real heights are greater than the national average;on the other hand, those who answered ‘short’ or ‘very short’ ; their heights are lower than the average. As for weight, those who answered ‘very fat’ and ‘fat’ weight much less than the national average.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;3) As for the question of how their height want to be, students who consider themselves ‘very tall’ and <BR>‘tall’ want to get less tall than now;those who regard themselves as ‘of the medium’ want either to get taller than now or to stay as they are;and those who think themselves to be ‘short’ or ‘very short’ want to get taller than now.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;As for weight, students who consider themselves to be ‘very fat’, ‘fat’ or ‘of the medium’ want to get thin;on the other hand, those who regard themselves as ‘thin’ or ‘very thin’ want to get less thin than now.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;4) The assumed national averages of 5 divisions are close to the real national averages:however, the height is a little higher while the weight is a little lower.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;5) The ideal heights in 5 divisions are greater than the national averages, while the ideal weights are smaller.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;I studied each division of value and perceptual judgement on students&quot; weight and height.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;As a result, when a person evaluates his own physique, he uses his own scale he has acquired from his experience, and this scale makes an strong influence on his evaluation.