A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON BODY SHAPE CONCERNS BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN COLLEGE GIRLS

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to make comparison of body shape concerns between rural and urbalcollege girls. For this purpose to total 1000 (500 Urban and 500 Rural) college girls were randomly selectedfrom different colleges of rural and urban areas of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. For assessing the body shape concerns the BodyShape Questionnaire (BSQ) developed by Chris Evans in (1993 ) was used. To compare mean difference of body shape concernsbetween rural and urban college girls, descriptive statistics and Z – test was applied, ?ndings of the study revealed that the meanbody shape of Urban College girls is signi?cantly greater (16.1874%), than the mean body shape of Rural College Girls.