| Summary: | Background: Adolescence is where the improvement goes fast which causes the teens really aware about their body and the sex-appeal become important to them as it can affect their social support, popularity, and friendships. This research discussed about fad diets behavior which is an effort in weight-loss diet that adolescent girls at SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta.
Purpose: To explore the relationships between nutritional status, self-esteem, and body image in fad diets behavior at SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta.
Method: Observational, with the cross sectional design. Using questionnaire that has been validated and has reliability value > 0.7 and weight scales as measuring instruments along with microtoise to get the nutritional status. The samples for this research are 284 female students of SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta. The hypotheses are tested using chi-square test and Kolmogorov-smirnov.
Result: From this research, we found that 75 (26,4%) respondents are doing an effort of weight-loss and all of them do fad diets. There is a significant relationship between nutritional status and fad diets behavior (p-value=0,000) with Odds ratio 4,045. There is also a significant relationship between body image and fad diets behavior (p-value=0,000) with Odds ratio 13,02. There is no relationship between self-esteem and fad diets behavior (p-value=0,997).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between nutritional status and body image with fad diets behavior but there is no relationship between self-esteem and fad diets behavior.
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