Body confidence and education
BODY CONFIDENCE AND EDUCATION
Body confidence is how a person feels about the way they look. Body confidence has become one of the major issues of current times. Teenagers belonging to both sexes are affected by this. With the widespread of social media, the idea of body shape, body figure, weight have stormed up the atmosphere around us. Everyone is in a hurry to acquire the physique of those top models who are featured on magazine covers. But this has led to the creation of a new kind of stereotype among the people about the body. Those possessing the physique alike the one regarded by many are beautiful hot etc. and the rest are uglier ones. This has led to a serious consequence of low esteem among those who don't have such a physique.
According U.S. department of health and services 90% of 15-17 year old girls want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance. Body confidence is not just limited to girls it is prevalent among boys too. According to research 20% of teenage boys are rarely never happy with their body. It has been observed through various studies that body confidence has a great impact on health, happiness, relationships etc. But one of the important area of concern in the field of education.
Research are being conducted across the globe on the issue of body confidence. Most of the researches report that after the teenagers with negative body confidence are under performers in academics. Low self esteem is one of the main cause of their underperformance or poor performance. This low self esteem has developed among them over the years because of negative body confidence were seem to be alone and preferred to stay away from group activities. These students avoid their involvement int both curricular and co-curricular activities, volunteering was observed in them. This has led to degradation in the all-round performance. Students who performed better I earlier classes gave unsatisfactory results during their teenage.body confidence was one of the prime research that caused downgrading in their performance.
Education has got a big role to plan in addressing the issue of body confidence. Curriculum can be effectively used to boost the confidence of the students. Students should be taught that there is nothing called perfect body, figure or physique. Still great measures have to be taken to promote positive body confidence among each and every student.