Perception of Global Self-Esteem and Body Fat in Adolescents Engaged in Basketball

The study examined the relation between the separate specificdomains of physical self-concept: global self-esteem (theoverall positive or negative feeling about one's self) and bodyfat considering age and gender in adolescents - basketballplayers. The respondents (54 man, 41 woman) were divided intotwo age groups. An ordinary Introductory Questionnaire of 20items was compiled in order to describe the population. Toanalyze the interaction effects for our researched factors(gender and age involvement), MANOVA and correlation werecalculated. Significance level was chosen to be 10%. Theresults proved our assumption that females tended to have morenegative evaluation of the body fat then males regardless oftheir age. The differences in the evaluation on globalself-esteem were revealed by age, but not by gender. Globalself-esteem was found to be more positive in younger adolescentthan in older basketball players regardless of their gender.