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Effects of physical exercise on body esteem among females: a meta-analysis
Yu Zhang1, Zehui Wen2, Yingbo Zhu1
1School of Physical Education and Sport, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
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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