BODY IMAGE AND EATING DISORDER A COVARIATE ON PERSONALITY TRAITS OF PREADOLESCENCE BOYS

In today's scenario eating habits in preadolescence boys is familiarly seen it has a retrospective effect on social and personal life. The body image of a preadolescent influences his or her eating habits which also determines his or her psychological behavior in various aspects. A change in eating habits can create a positive effect on personality as well as his or her body image if it is identified at an early stage. Researcher conducted the study on one thousand two hundred (n=1200) boy’s students of age 13 – 15 years were selected from various SSC, CBSE, ICSE Board schools of Navi Mumbai region was pulled as sample. For collection of data, standardized Questionnaire from Experts such as Personality Traits, Professor R.D.Helode, Body Image शरीरकीछवि:संशोवितस्ि- आंकलनमापनीDr C.DHelode and Dr Ajay Karkare and eating Disorders EDI Questionnaire [Dr.Agashe and Karkare 2007] were used. The data of all the variables were primarily processed for descriptive statistics. Further, by using IBM SPSS-22 Software the data were analyzed by employing Linear Regression Analysis (Analysis of Variance). The Results revealed that Body image was a predominant factor in predicting personality dimensions in lonely boys, whereas a poor predictor in personality dimensions of Neuroticism boys. Eating disorder was a predominant factor in predicting personality dimensions in Extrovert boys, whereas a poor predictor in personality dimensions of Neuroticism boys. It was also revealed that It was concluded that joint contribution of Body image and eating disorder was found to be a poor predictor of personality dimensions of Neuroticism boys at 13.82%, whereas body image and eating disorder was found to be an equal and week predictor of personality dimension of Extrovert boys at 36.09%. Hence it is concluded that body image and eating disorder was found a higher predictor of personality dimension of lonely boys at 37.26%.