We investigated the body image among schoolboys and schoolgirls in Niigata prefecture in concerning with their degree of obesity (n＝57767). We calculated gap rate between self body image and own degree of obesity. It appears that female students tend to overestimate own body image, and it makes high gap rate.
In spite of the degree of obesity is “thin or more highly thin figures” , it was revealed that “At-Risk” students desiring to be more thin exist in the groups. This tendency has been on increase as one's grade in school advanced year by year. On the other hand, “the satisfaction-group” having been contented with the perception in line with the body type regarding one-self was shown to decrease as one' grade in school advanced.
