From: Lookism hurts: appearance discrimination and self-rated health in South Korea
Distribution | Poor self-rated health* | Appearance discrimination** | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | Repeated | Incident | In error | |||||
N (%) | N (%) | P a | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | P b | |
Sex | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
Male | 1,765 (59.4) | 87 (4.9) | 1,539 (87.2) | 26 (1.5) | 92 (5.2) | 108 (6.1) | ||
Female | 1,208 (40.6) | 141 (11.7) | 974 (80.6) | 48 (4.0) | 81 (6.7) | 105 (8.7) | ||
Age | <0.001 | 0.034 | ||||||
Group I | 1,659 (55.8) | 159 (9.6) | 1,378 (83.1) | 49 (3.0) | 110 (6.6) | 122 (7.4) | ||
Group II | 1,314 (44.2) | 69 (5.3) | 1,135 (86.4) | 25 (1.9) | 63 (4.8) | 91 (6.9) | ||
Change of BMI*** | 0.005 | 0.041 | ||||||
No change | 2,348 (79.0) | 162 (6.9) | 2,003 (85.3) | 56 (2.4) | 135 (5.8) | 154 (6.6) | ||
Toward underweight | 126 (4.2) | 18 (14.3) | 110 (87.3) | 1 (0.8) | 3 (2.4) | 12 (9.5) | ||
Toward overweight/obese | 199 (6.7) | 17 (8.5) | 156 (78.4) | 8 (4.0) | 18 (9.1) | 17 (8.5) | ||
Toward normal | 300 (10.1) | 31 (10.3) | 244 (81.3) | 9 (3.0) | 17 (5.7) | 30 (10.0) | ||
Residential area | 0.461 | 0.837 | ||||||
Metropolitan area | 2,402 (80.8) | 180 (7.5) | 2,033 (84.6) | 62 (2.6) | 138 (5.8) | 169 (7.0) | ||
Rural area | 571 (19.2) | 48 (8.4) | 480 (84.1) | 12 (2.1) | 35 (6.1) | 44 (7.7) | ||
Baseline health status | <0.001 | 0.038 | ||||||
Good | 2,788 (93.8) | 185 (6.6) | 2,370 (85.0) | 67 (2.4) | 159 (5.7) | 192 (6.9) | ||
Poor | 185 (6.2) | 43 (23.2) | 143 (77.3) | 7 (3.8) | 14 (7.6) | 21 (11.4) |