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Investigate the effects of age on body perception, by asking teenage girls and women over forty
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Results Tally Chart for Results Body perception Similar Different Total Below 35 years of age 7 32 39 Above 35 years of age 15 23 38 Total 22 55 77 Similar- All three indicated marks must be within two points on the chart. Table For The Chi Square Test BP S D T BP S D T A.35.Y.O.A 7 32 39 B.35.Y.O.A 15 23 38 T 22 55 77 A, B, C and D are called cells. After analyzing my research the results the x[CS1] value worked out to be 4.38. The x value was above the critical level there for my hypothesis can be accepted. Discussion My aim in this investigation was to find weather or not body perception becomes more relaxed with age. I asked participants to indicate on a range of images where they feel their current and ideal body shape or size is and which image they feel is the most attractive to the opposite sex. Women of a more mature age tended to put each fairly close together where as the young girls spaced them more part with a great difference between ideal and current shape...
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