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Body Image and Competitive Rank Among Sport Dancers

The basic aim of this investigation is to establish differences between the five levels of sport dance competitors and their self-estimated body image by usage of Multidimensional Body Image Questionnaire designed for dancers separately by gender. The investigation is conducted on 173 female sport dancers and 200 male sport dancers from 51 countries all over the world. The dancers had two ways to participated in investigation: by completing classical (paper and pen) questionnaire given by their trainers or by completing online questionnaire throughout the Survey Monkey server. Multidimensional Body Image Questionnaire (MBIQD) administrated in this investigation is a self-reported instrument constructed of 36 items with 5-point response format. According to factor analysis oblimin rotation and Guttman – Kaiser Criterion, those items yielded eight factors (attractiveness, joy, body efficacy, flexibility, energy, strength, bad health/weakness and masculinity/femininity). Discriminate analysis was applied to analyze the differences between five competitive levels in sport dance and eight subscales of MBIQD separately by gender. The results on the female dancers suggested that discriminate function is defined mostly by masculinity/femininity strength, and inversely scaled bad health/weakness subscales. In the basis of the differences of less and more successful female sport dancers is their self perception of physical appearance, strength and good health. On the sample of male dancers, discriminate analysis was not significant according to values of Wilks' lambda.

international competitors; competitive levels; body image

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