@article{ref1,
title="Mexican American female adolescent self-esteem: the effect of body image, exercise behavior, and body fatness",
journal="Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences",
year="1997",
author="Guinn, Bobby and Semper, Tom and Jorgensen, Layne",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="517-526",
abstract="Self-esteem, the evaluative manner in which one judges herself or himself; forms the foundation of emotional well-being. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of Mexican American female adolescents' self-esteem with body image, exercise behavior, and bodyfatness. Two hundredfifty-four subjects, ranging in agefrom 13 to 15 years, were drawn from a predominantly Mexican American population located in the LowerRio Grande Valley region of Texas. Data were gathered through a self-report instrument consisting of self-esteem, body image, and exercise involvement scales and anthropometric measures. <br><br>RESULTS indicated significant positive relationships between self-esteem and body image and exercise involvement and a significant negative relationship between self-esteem and bodyfatness. Body image,followed by exercise, exerted the strongest explanatory power of subjects'self-esteem scores. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that a degree of body distortion exists in female Mexican American adolescents.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0739-9863",
doi="10.1177/07399863970194009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07399863970194009"
}