Importance Of Body Image Dissatisfaction

2.3.2 Body Image Dissatisfaction

On the other hand, individual with negative body image satisfaction starts to develop negative perceptions and thoughts about themselves. Body image dissatisfaction defined as an individual "negative thoughts and feelings about his or her body" (Grogan, 2016).The conception of self is complicated as it involves different facets and complex. The actual self-reflects individual current attribute of self while ideal self can be referred to attributes that individual like to acquire, thus discrepancy between ideal self and actual self will "elicit dejection related emotion like dissatisfaction" (Vartanian, 2012). Understanding self- discrepancy theory (SDT) and body image will help better implementation of intervention

Martins, Pellegrini, Matheus and Petroski (2010), carried out an investigation and they find out that prevalence of body image dissatisfaction, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were high with overweight girls presenting higher dissatisfaction. Research on body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders among midlife adults pointed out that midlife female had higher body dissatisfaction and eating disorder (McGuinness & Taylor, 2016). Eating disorders are more prominent in Western countries but these trends keep shifting from year to year and non- Western countries also started showing the increasing number in eating disorder issues (Witcomb, Arcelus & Chen, 2013). From the research, body image dissatisfaction contributed to growing number of eating disorder problem and it affects people despite their age or cultural

Toni (2010) carried out study involve Muslim undergraduate student highlighted the "students use a religious interpretative lens to make meaning of self, their interaction with others and group membership". Practicing Islamic values can be significant factor that influences a Muslim undergraduate students’ view of themselves or ways they interact with others. The hijab or veil is part of Islamic values implementation based on Quran teachings (Hassim, 2015). In some countries hijab are compulsory to be worn by women in public but in other countries, there are not compulsory and researcher also mentioned hijab represent as community identifier, personal identifier and sales mechanisms (Perkins, 2012). In Malaysia, hijab being practice by most of the female