Kroppsuppfattning hos värnpliktiga män
Body awareness is a term that refers to a person´s perception and knowledge about his or her body. It includes proportion, size, weight, contour and image of ones body. The Ben- Tovim Walker Body Attitudes Questionnaire (BAQ) contains 44 questions concerning the different aspects of body awareness: Feeling fat, Body disparagement, Strength and fitness, Salience of weight, Attractiveness and Lower body fatness. The purpose of this study was to investigate body awareness among men in military recruit training. BAQ was distributed to fifty recruits for military service in Boden. The calculation of BMI shows that 70% of the military recruits were in the category of normal weight. The result indicated that the recruits had a sound body awareness, as they in all aspects were within the frame for what was defined as normal.