The Impact of Social Perception on Body Shaming Among Filipino Men

Vivien Lorraine  Chuateco,; Morning Grace  Francisco,; Judy Ann  Julio,; Elisha  Mallo,; Julia Nicole  Pamintuan,; Arjay  Viesca,; Juvenal  Dalimeg,

The Impact of Social Perception on Body Shaming Among Filipino Men

Discipline: Education

Abstract:

Body shaming has become a popular issue and is commonly experienced by young adults in their daily lives. However, people overlook the fact that men as well are victims of body shaming. This research paper aims to determine its impact and whether social perception is a predictor of the body shaming experiences of Filipino men. The multiple regression analysis has been used to calculate the impact of body shaming on social perception. The respondents scores from the test results have the pvalue of 0.746 which the significance is > 0.5 shows there is no significant impact. While the social perception of body shaming has a p-value of 0.0002 which has the significance of <0.5 has stated that there is significant impact. The result from the chi-squared test, that tested the hypothesis of this study if the social perception has significant relationship to body shaming, rejected the Ho (see table 13). The findings show that there is a significant relationship between social perception and body shaming. The results also show that social perception is a predictor of the existence of body shaming experience of Filipino men. Therefore, body shaming has minimal impact on Filipino men, but because of the high level of sensitivity from social perception towards their body, Filipino men give more attention to what other people think about their physical appearance. Hence, social perception has an impact on the existence of body shaming experience of Filipino men.

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