Abstract: Using such scales as multidimensional self-body image, social physique anxiety, physical self-concept, and motor behavior to survey 1 200 university freshmen and make correlation and multivariate regression analysis of relevant indicators so as to reveal the relation between contemporary college students’ body image, social physique anxiety, physical self-concept and their behavior. The results indicate that there is no gender difference in appearance assessment, appearance orientation, social physique anxiety, body satisfaction and physical self-concept, however, females have higher scores in body obesity than males. Gender and appearance assessment have weaker influence on motor behavior, but appearance assessment, body obesity and social physique anxiety have strong explanatory power to body satisfaction and physical self-conception.

Key words: body image, social physique anxiety, motor behavior