Children’s Physical Self-Concept and Body Image According to Weight Status and Physical Fitness
, Francisco Miguel Leo 1, Diana Amado Alonso 2, David Hortigüela-Alcalá 3, Miguel Angel Tapia-Serrano 1,* and Ernesto De La Cruz-Sánchez 4Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I found the study interesting and relevant. As mentioned by the authors the cross-sectional design precludes causality links. However, the English language should be substantially revised. It is very difficult to understand the discussion given the major writing problems.
In the discussion, a comparison with previous data from high school students should be performed.
The list of references should be substantially and carefully checked. Many errors and missing data.
Please see the attached pdf with marked comments for a sample of corrections
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Author Response
Cáceres, January, 08th 2020
Dear Hayley Chen,
We would like to thank you for the opportunity to response all the comments and suggestions conducted by reviewers. Once we have seen all of them, we have responded all comments in order to get the manuscript publishable.
Reviewer 1
Dear Editor, after reading carefully the article entitled "Childrens’ Physical Self-Concept and Body Image According to Weight Status and Physical Fitness", we would like to thank reviewer for their comments in order to improve the quality of the manuscript.
Reviewer: The English language should be substantially revised. It is very difficult to understand the discussion given the major writing problems.
Authors: We would like to thank reviewer for his/her suggestion to improve que quality of English grammar. In this sense, we have carefully revised in depth the whole manuscript, but so if reviewer considered necessary, the authors would accept the editing service of journal Sustainability to publish the manuscript.
Reviewer: In the discussion, a comparison with previous data from high school students should be performed.
Authors: The authors agree with the reviewer, so we have included a systematic review conducted by Babic et al. (2014), Padial-Ruz et al. (2019) in order to compared our results with the previous researches in the discussion section.
Reviewer: The list of references should be substantially and carefully checked. Many errors and missing data.
Authors: The authors would like to thank the contributions conducted by reviewer, so we have decided to review and correct all reference bibliographic of the bibliography.
Reviewer: Please see the attached pdf with marked comments for a sample of corrections.
Authors: The authors would like to thank the contributions conducted by reviewer, so have revised and corrected all contributions developed by reviewer in the document.
Reviewer 2 Report
After reading carefully the article entitled "Childrens’ Physical Self-Concept and Body Image According to Weight Status and Physical Fitness". The comments and suggestions are as follows: 1. Introduction: The introduction section is well – conducted, with the concepts and ideas flow along the different paragraphs. Nevertheless, I would like that authors indicate in the introduction section other researches conducted with body dissatisfaction and self-concept, in order to support the academic idea to research the topic (i.e. physical activity, motor performance…). 2. Method: This section is completed with the exception of the dates of data collecting. Please, introduce the dates that data was collected in order to give more information to readers. 3. Discussion: Please, according to the references added in the introduction section, discuss the relationship between body dissatisfaction and self-concept. 4. Strenghts and Prospective of Future: Please, include other prospective to research in the future, such as qualitative designs in order to know in depth the reasons of body image, self-concept, motor performance and physical activity.
Author Response
Cáceres, December, 30th 2019
Dear Hayley Chen,
We would like to thank you for the opportunity to response all the comments and suggestions conducted by reviewers. Once we have seen all of them, we have responded one by one in order to get the manuscript publishable.
Reviewer 1
After reading carefully the article entitled "Childrens’ Physical Self-Concept and Body Image According to Weight Status and Physical Fitness". The comments and suggestions are as follows:
1. Introduction
Reviewer. The introduction section is well – conducted, with the concepts and ideas flow along the different paragraphs. Nevertheless, I would like that authors indicate in the introduction section other researchers conducted with body dissatisfaction and self-concept, in order to support the academic idea to research the topic (i.e. physical activity, motor performance…).
Authors. First, the authors would like to thank reviewer's contributions to improve the quality of the manuscript. Also, we agree with the reviewer to include more researches conducted with the body dissatisfaction and self-concept, so we have developed a bibliographic search and have decided to include the researches as follows:
Padial-Ruz, R.; Pérez-Turpin, J.A.; Cepero-González, M.; Zurita-Ortega, F. Effects of Physical Self-Concept, Emotional Isolation, and Family Functioning on Attitudes towards Physical Education in Adolescents: Structural Equation Analysis. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 17, 94. Fernández-Bustos, J.G.; Infantes-Paniagua, Á.; Gonzalez-Martí, I.; Contreras-Jordán, O.R. Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents: Differences by Sex, BMI and Type and Organisation of Physical Activity. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3109. Mak, K.-K.; Pang, J.S.; Lai, C.-M.; Ho, R.C. Body esteem in Chinese adolescents: Effect of gender, age, and weight. Health Psychol. 2013, 18, 46–54. Sánchez-Miguel, P.A.; Leo, F.M.; Amado-Alonso, D.; Pulido, J.J.; Sánchez-Oliva, D. Relationships between Physical Activity Levels, Self-Identity, Body Dissatisfaction and Motivation among Spanish High School Students. Hum. Kinet. 2017, 59, 29–38.
2. Method
Reviewer. This section is completed with the exception of the dates of data collecting. Please, introduce the dates that data was collected in order to give more information to readers.
Authors. The authors agree with the reviewer comments so we have decided to include the dates the data collected in order to give more information to readers. This change has been added in the page 2, line 35: “Data were recollected during a period of 5 months (from February 2018 to June 2018)”.
3. Discussion
Reviewer. Please, according to the references added in the introduction section, discuss the relationship between body dissatisfaction and self-concept.
Authors. The authors would like to thank the contributions conducted by reviewer, so in based to references of the introduction section, we have discussed the relationship between body dissatisfaction and self-concept. Moreover, we have included other important references considered by authors as:
Fernández-Bustos, J.G.; Infantes-Paniagua, Á.; Gonzalez-Martí, I.; Contreras-Jordán, O.R. Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents: Differences by Sex, BMI and Type and Organisation of Physical Activity. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3109. Smolak, L.; Murnen, S.K.; Ruble, A.E. Female athletes and eating problems: A meta-analysis. J. Eat. Disord. 2000, 27, 371–380. Mond, J.M.; Hay, P.J.; Rodgers, B.; Owen, C.; Beumont, P.J.V. Assessing quality of life in eating disorder patients. Life Res. 2005, 14, 171–178.
4. Strenghts and Prospective of Future
Reviewer. Please, include other prospective to research in the future, such as qualitative designs in order to know in depth the reasons of body image, self-concept, motor performance and physical activity.
Authors. The authors are grateful for the reviewer's contributions, so they have decided to include their suggestions in the prospective of future.
Reviewer 3 Report
Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper.
Recommendations
Please highlight the novelty of your study related to previous researches. According with the literature of your topic is very large and the approaches of your topic is very complex.
I recommend to extend the Introduction with more relevant content to be more clear .
The Discussion need to be extending to highlight the correlation between your findings and the main findings of previous studies.
Author Response
Cáceres, December, 30th 2019
Dear Hayley Chen,
We would like to thank you for the opportunity to response all the comments and suggestions conducted by reviewers. Once we have seen all of them, we have responded one by one in order to get the manuscript publishable.
Reviewer 2
Reviewer. Please highlight the novelty of your study related to previous researches. According with the literature of your topic is very large and the approaches of your topic is very complex. I recommend to extend the Introduction with more relevant content to be more clear.
Authors. The authors agree with the contributions of reviewer, so have decided to extend the Introduction section including more references as:
Padial-Ruz, R.; Pérez-Turpin, J.A.; Cepero-González, M.; Zurita-Ortega, F. Effects of Physical Self-Concept, Emotional Isolation, and Family Functioning on Attitudes towards Physical Education in Adolescents: Structural Equation Analysis. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 17, 94. Fernández-Bustos, J.G.; Infantes-Paniagua, Á.; Gonzalez-Martí, I.; Contreras-Jordán, O.R. Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents: Differences by Sex, BMI and Type and Organisation of Physical Activity. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3109. Mak, K.-K.; Pang, J.S.; Lai, C.-M.; Ho, R.C. Body esteem in Chinese adolescents: Effect of gender, age, and weight. Health Psychol. 2013, 18, 46–54. Sánchez-Miguel, P.A.; Leo, F.M.; Amado-Alonso, D.; Pulido, J.J.; Sánchez-Oliva, D. Relationships between Physical Activity Levels, Self-Identity, Body Dissatisfaction and Motivation among Spanish High School Students. Hum. Kinet. 2017, 59, 29–38.
Reviewer. The Discussion need to be extending to highlight the correlation between your findings and the main findings of previous studies.
Authors. The author thanks you the reviewer's contributions to improve the quality of the manuscript. The Discussion section have been extended by highlight the correlation between body dissatisfaction with self-concept. In addition, information about the relationship between body dissatisfaction and physical activity in both gender has been included to highlight the importance of activity on body dissatisfaction in youths.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The author significantly improved the manuscript. However, I still believe that the English should be revised. See some comments directly on the pdf. I am not expert in English and was able to identify major formulation problems in some sentences.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer, after reading carefully the article entitled "Childrens’ Physical Self-Concept and Body Image According to Weight Status and Physical Fitness", we would like to thank reviewer for their comments in order to improve the quality of the manuscript.
Reviewer: The English language should be substantially revised. It is very difficult to understand the discussion given the major writing problems.
Authors: We would like to thank reviewer for his/her suggestion to improve que quality of English grammar. In this sense, we have carefully revised in depth the whole manuscript by an English native. However, if reviewer considered necessary, the authors would accept the editing service of journal Sustainability to publish the manuscript.
Reviewer: See some comments directly on the pdf
Authors: The authors would like to thank the contributions conducted by reviewer and we were accepted all the changes proposed by the pdf document.
Reviewer 3 Report
The authors improved the manuscript according with the recommendations.
Author Response
We would like to thank reviewers` comments towards our manuscript which have improved its quality. Thus, and according to his/her last comments, we have not conducted any changes because he/she was agreed with our last modifications.
