Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis

Abstract In recent years, females’ body esteem has gradually declined, which has seriously affected their physical and mental health. Physical exercise has the positive impact on promoting females’ body esteem. Therefore, to better understand the relationship between physical exercise and body estee...

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Main Authors: Yu Zhang, Zehui Wen, Yingbo Zhu, Guofeng Guan
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Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20861-7
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description Abstract In recent years, females’ body esteem has gradually declined, which has seriously affected their physical and mental health. Physical exercise has the positive impact on promoting females’ body esteem. Therefore, to better understand the relationship between physical exercise and body esteem, it is necessary to conduct a quantitative analysis of physical exercise to improve females’ body esteem. Retrieve randomized controlled trials on the effects of physical exercise on females’ body esteem from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Scopus databases and the search period is from the creation of the database to June 20, 2024. The Stata 17.0 software is used for meta-analysis. Results: It is shown that physical exercise have a significant overall effect on promoting females’ body esteem (g = 0.35, P < 0.001), and physical exercise can effectively improve the PC (g = 0.66, P < 0.01) and PS (g = 0.27, P < 0. 01) of females, but there is not statistically significant in females’ PSW (g = 0.32, P > 0.05), SC (g = 0.42, P > 0.05) and BA (g = -0.20, P > 0.05). Conclusions: Although physical exercise can effectively improve body esteem of females, it mainly affects the PC and PS in body esteem of females.
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spelling doaj-art-3bbf07f29eeb4636a819fcdc1ed608672025-08-20T02:30:56ZengBMCBMC Public Health1471-24582024-12-0124111510.1186/s12889-024-20861-7Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysisYu Zhang0Zehui Wen1Yingbo Zhu2Guofeng Guan3School of Physical Education and Sport, Henan UniversitySchool of Physical Education and Sport, Henan UniversitySchool of Physical Education and Sport, Henan UniversitySchool of Physical Education and Sport, Henan UniversityAbstract In recent years, females’ body esteem has gradually declined, which has seriously affected their physical and mental health. Physical exercise has the positive impact on promoting females’ body esteem. Therefore, to better understand the relationship between physical exercise and body esteem, it is necessary to conduct a quantitative analysis of physical exercise to improve females’ body esteem. Retrieve randomized controlled trials on the effects of physical exercise on females’ body esteem from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Scopus databases and the search period is from the creation of the database to June 20, 2024. The Stata 17.0 software is used for meta-analysis. Results: It is shown that physical exercise have a significant overall effect on promoting females’ body esteem (g = 0.35, P < 0.001), and physical exercise can effectively improve the PC (g = 0.66, P < 0.01) and PS (g = 0.27, P < 0. 01) of females, but there is not statistically significant in females’ PSW (g = 0.32, P > 0.05), SC (g = 0.42, P > 0.05) and BA (g = -0.20, P > 0.05). Conclusions: Although physical exercise can effectively improve body esteem of females, it mainly affects the PC and PS in body esteem of females.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20861-7Physical exerciseFemaleBody esteemMeta analysis
spellingShingle Yu Zhang
Zehui Wen
Yingbo Zhu
Guofeng Guan
Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
BMC Public Health
Physical exercise
Female
Body esteem
Meta analysis
title Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
title_full Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
title_fullStr Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
title_short Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
title_sort effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females a meta analysis
topic Physical exercise
Female
Body esteem
Meta analysis
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20861-7
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