The Effect of Weight Stress on Weight Control Behavior in Adult Women after Post-COVID-19

Abstract

(Purpose) This research analyzed the effect of the post-COVID-19 weight control stress of female adults on weight control behavior. (Design/methodology/approach) To collect materials for this research, online and offline surveys were conducted for women for 26 days from May 26∼to Jun 20, 2022. Questionnaires were distributed to 488 female adults in their 20s~60s. Excluding 41 respondents who were not sincere in responding to the questionnaire, 447 questionnaires were used for this research. The survey adopted a self-evaluation that each respondent wrote down for each question. (Findings) As a result of examining the differences in post-COVID-19 weight stress depending on the general characteristics of research subjects, differences in post-COVID-19 weight stress depending upon age, weight, and education were significant, while differences depending upon the marital state, occupation, and monthly income were none. As a result of examining the differences in post-COVID-19 dietary control change depending on the general characteristics of research subjects, differences in post-COVID-19 dietary control change depending on age, weight, and education were significant, while differences depending upon the marital state, occupation, and monthly income were none. As a result of examining the differences in post-COVID-19 exercise change depending on the general characteristics of research subjects, the difference in post-COVID-19 exercise change depending on occupation was significant, while differences in post-COVID-19 exercise change depending on age, weight, marital state, education, and monthly income were insignificant at the 5% significance level. As a result of investigating the correlation of post-COVID-19 weight stress with the dietary control change and exercise change, the post-COVID-19 dietary control change and weight stress turned out to have a very high positive correlation, and the post-COVID-19 exercise change and weight stress also turned out to have a significant positive correlation. As a result of investigating the effect of post-COVID-19 weight stress on the dietary control change, the post-COVID-19 weight stress turned out to have a significant effect on the dietary control change. As a result of investigating the effect of post-COVID-19 weight stress on exercise change, it is possible to see that the higher the post-COVID-19 weight stress is, the greater the exercise change is. (Research implications or Originality) This research investigates the weight control stress women feel and their weight control behavior changes (diet, exercise, and weight control) in the changing stream of life due to COVID-19 and examines the relation of the recognition improvement regarding healthy weight and the prolonged pandemic with weight change.