2000 Members of the Wheeling Jesuit University psychology department recently conducted a study on the body images of male and female adults and college students.
Preliminary findings show that neither men nor women are satisfied with their body.
Results show that while women generally want their body size to be smaller, men would prefer to be larger than they are. In contrast to other studies, this work took into consideration muscularity, as well as weight, as a part of body image. Both college and adult women wanted to be smaller and less muscular. College men, in general, wished to be heavier and more muscular. Adult men preferred a more muscular, but not heavier, build.