1998 Volume 49 Issue 9 Pages 1021-1026
The purpose of this study is to find out how the female college students evaluate body shapes of others, and to clarify the relationship between evaluated values of others and physical characteristics of evaluators, and the relationship between evaluated values and consciousness of those who evaluated them. In 1993, 298 female college students evaluated a number of body silhouettes. The evaluated values, body measurements of the silhouettes and of the students themselves, the degree of satisfaction with their body shapes, and the severity of the evaluation were analyzed. The main results are as follows : 1) The female students severely evaluated the body shapes of others. 2) The students evaluated as being beautiful body shapes of others as beautiful that were higher in bust height, waist height and hip height, and were narrower in breadths and circumferences. 3) The correlation coefficient between the severity of the evaluation and the physical characteristics of evaluators and the correlation coefficient between the severity of the evaluation and the satisfaction of evaluators with their own body shapes were not significant.
