The Corrlation of Self Esteem and Body Image to The Incidence of Body Shaming on Adolescent Girl in SMA Rakyat Pancurbatu in 2019

Abstract

Body shaming is a form of emotional verbal violence that is often not realized by the perpetrator because it is generally considered normal. Generally, the victims are middle-school age teenagers, because at this time they are still adapting to their bodies and are very concerned about their bodies, in contrast to adults who tend to be indifferent to their physical appearance. This study was an explanatory quantitative study with a cross sectional design to determine the correlation between self-esteem and body image on the incidence of Body Shaming in adolescent girl in SMA Rakyat Pancurbatu in 2019. In this study, to determine the correlation of 2 variables independent of the dependent variable used parametric test. Test the normality of the data with the technique of one sample Kolmogorov – Smirnov test. The significance was determined if the p value < 0.05. (95 % confidence level). The results of statistical tests showed that there was no significant difference between body image and self-esteem on the incidence of body shaming (p value = 0.020 (p<0.05). Positive body image encourages a person to behave in a healthy manner and negative body image (dissatisfaction) will encourage someone to do it on purpose. The results showed that there was no significant difference between body image and selfesteem on the incidence of body shaming with the suggestion that further research be carried out with socio-cultural and economic factors, ethnicity, parenting patterns and student achievement can be controlled.