Body Image And Its Relation To Psychological Attitudes Towards The Practice Of Physical Education And Sport In Obese Adolescents

Abstract

The study aims to identify the relationship of body image with psychological attitudes towards the practice of physical activities and sports in obese adolescents in high school. I counted and based on the approach descriptive, and on a sample of 30 adolescents and adolescents from certain secondary schools in the western state of Algeria. Based on the law of determining the ideal weight, we used the attitude scale towards the practice of physical activity and sport designed by "Kenon", which contains six dimensions, and the body image scale prepared by "Muhammad Hassan Allawi". The SPSS statistical package program was used, and the results were found: There is a statistically significant correlation between psychological attitudes and body image of obese adolescents with respect to physical activity.