Hubungan Antara Body Dissactisfaction Dengan Kecenderungan Perilaku Diet Pada Remaja Putri

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out the correlation between body dissatisfaction with dieting behavior of adolescent female. The subjects were 96 adolescent females who were still studying in Junior High School with age between 12 – 15 years. Scale used in this research was dieting behavior scale by Polivy, et al (1978) arranged based on three dieting behavior aspects, which are external aspect, emotional aspect, and restraint aspect and body dissatisfaction scale arranged based on body dissatisfaction component by Thomson, et al (Odang, 2005), which are affective component, cognitive and behavior. The result of this research was there was a positive correlation between body dissatisfaction with dieting behavior of adolescent female, (r = 0.456 and p < 0.01), so that the hypothesis of this research was acceptable. Keywords: body dissatisfaction, dieting behavior, female adolescenc