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Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 34-55 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X05277737
© 2005 American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Perceptions of Body Malleability: Linkages With Body-Related Feelings and Behaviors Among Undergraduate Women and Men

Jennifer Paff Ogle

Colorado State University

Hyun-Hwa Lee

Bowling Green State University

Mary Lynn Damhorst

Iowa State University

This study explored the utility of body-related behaviors, body attitudes, normative beliefs, and body mass index (BMI) in predicting perceptions of malleability and the utility of body attitude, subjective norms, perceptions of malleability, and BMI in predicting desires to change the body and attempts to change the body. Aquestionnaire was administered to undergraduates. Regression analyses suggested that female and male perceptions of malleability were predicted by attempts to change the body. Among females, body attitudes and normative beliefs about siblings and friends predicted perceptions of malleability. For both females andmales, adding perceptions of malleability to a regression model including body attitude and subjective norm increased the variance explained in desire and attempts to change the body. BMI did not predict perceptions of malleability, desire to change the body, or attempts to change the body.

Key Words: body • satisfaction • image • attitude • malleability • BMI


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