Overall results indicated that 50.6% of the children surveyed were dissatisfied with their current body shape or size (their current figure differed from their ideal figure), 41.8% wanted to be thinner, while 8.8% wanted to be larger. Fifty percent of the girls were dissatisfied with their current body shape, with 45.1% wishing to be thinner. Boys showed similar trends, with 48.9% dissatisfied and 38.9% wishing to be thinner. A greater percentage of boys wanted to be larger than their current body shape (12.3%) compared to girls (4.9%).
Body image dissatisfaction was determined by the formula, current figure