🧠 “Does your confidence rise as your weight drops?”
We ran the numbers. No feelings, just data.
👉 4,500 Korean youth, panel data survey
Is your self-worth tied to your weight?
😔 "I stopped looking in the mirror when I gained weight."
💭 "People say my voice changed after I lost weight — more confident."
🧘 "Turns out, self-esteem isn’t just a mood — it’s the product of lifestyle."
🧙♂️ I’m The Data Whizard — here to turn your inner doubts into outer data.
Ever heard this before?
- 💬 "Losing weight boosts confidence."
- 💬 "Your body image affects how you speak, date, and succeed."
Is that just a feel-good myth? Or does the scale actually measure a little bit of your self-worth too?
📊 Statistical Spellbook: Ordered Logit Model
- 📚 Data Source: Korean Youth Panel Survey (YPS)
- 👥 Sample Size: 4,500 youth respondents
- 🔢 Model: Ordered Logit Regression (Stata:
ologit self_esteem weight_change)
Variables:
- 🧠
self_esteem: Ordered as 😞 Low → 😐 Medium → 😎 High - ⚖️
weight_change: 🔽 Loss / ➖ Maintain / 🔼 Gain
💡 What the Data Said
✔️ Those who lost weight scored +0.41 higher on self-esteem — that’s a real, measurable effect 🌟
❌ Those who gained weight were 1.72 times more likely to feel “not good enough” 😢
👩🦰 Among women, these effects were even stronger — weight changes affected their sense of self more significantly.
📌 Bottom line? Self-esteem isn’t static. Your body changes — and your confidence follows.
🎻 Graph: The Violin Plot of Emotion
Visualized distributions showed this loud and clear:
- 🔽 Weight Loss: Highest self-esteem, stable and centered
- ➖ Weight Maintained: Average confidence, no significant shift
- 🔼 Weight Gain: Confidence plummeted, most scattered values
📊 Confidence — shaken, not stirred — by weight shifts. The violin plot sings the melody of the mind.
🌈 So What’s the Takeaway?
Self-esteem can be managed, like any health indicator.
Your method doesn’t have to be weight loss — it could be meditation, journaling, a new outfit, or even therapy.
But this study shows one clear truth:
Confidence is real. It's visible. And yes — sometimes, it's measurable.
📚 Sources & References
- Jung & Lee (2011), “Obesity, Body Satisfaction and Self-Esteem in Korean Adolescents,” Mental Health & Social Welfare, 38: 60–80.
- Blyth, Simmons, & Zakin (1985), “Satisfaction with Body Image for Adolescent Females,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 14: 207–225.
- Grilli & Rampichini (2021), “Ordered Logit Model,” in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research. Springer.
- YPS data: https://survey.keis.or.kr/yp/yp01/yp0101.jsp
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