Exploratory study on social work students' attitudes on body size

Project (M.S.W., Social Work) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2009.This study, collaborated equally by both researchers, explored social work students'\ud attitudes, beliefs, and experiences related to body size and body image.\ud A self-report survey was developed and employed through a web-based service. Data\ud were collected from 115 (44 first year and 71 second year) Masters in social work\ud students from California State University, Sacramento. Beyond descriptive analysis,\ud Pearson's r correlations as well as linear regression were utilized to analyze the study's\ud data. Results indicate that there is an association between participants' own weight issues\ud and their beliefs related to overweight people's health, happiness, and self-confidence.\ud This study concludes that issues relating to body size and body image are important\ud social work topics.Social Wor