Publicación: BODY IMAGE DISSATISFACTION AND DISTORTION INDEX IN A POPULATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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2021
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STUDIES IN HEALTH SCIENCES
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BODY IMAGE IS A DYNAMIC CONSTRUCT THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS AN EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS TOWARDS THE BODY, BETWEEN THE PERSON AND THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXT, AND THANKS TO NUMEROUS INVESTIGATIONS THIS CONCEPT HAS BEEN CHANGING AND ENRICHING ITSELF. THE PRESENT WORK IS A DESCRIPTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY THAT EVALUATES THE PERCEPTION THAT YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HAVE OF THEIR OWN BODY IN THESE TIMES OF GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMERISM AND ERRONEOUS IDEALS OF PERFECTION. 500 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BETWEEN 18 AND 25 YEARS OF AGE PARTICIPATED VOLUNTARILY AND WITH INFORMED CONSENT, THE AVERAGE AGE WAS 21 YEARS AND THE MAJORITY PRESENTED NORMAL WEIGHT: 219 WOMEN (43.8%) AND 149 MEN (29.8%). REGARDING THE MEASUREMENT OF WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE, ACCORDING TO THIS PARAMETER, MEN PRESENTED A 36.8% LOW CARDIO METABOLIC RISK AND WOMEN 32%, INDICATING THAT THE MAJORITY HAVE AN ADEQUATE MEASURE OF ABDOMINAL FAT. 83% PRESENTED DISTORTION INDEX (DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERCEIVED AND DESIRED BODY IMAGE, REFERRING TO ALTERED PERCEPTION OF BODY DIMENSIONS), WHILE 91.6% PRESENTED DISSATISFACTION (DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERCEIVED IMAGE AND REAL IMAGE, ALLUDES TO NEGATIVE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS TOWARDS THE BODY). IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT, DESPITE THE DATA OBTAINED, THE LEVEL OF CONCERN PRESENTED BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IS MINIMAL, AND 80% OF THEM DO NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT INTEREST IN MODIFYING THEIR BODY IMAGE, HAVING OTHER PRIORITIES IN THEIR UNIVERSITY LIFE.
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DISTORTIÓN INDEX, DISSATISFACTIÓN INDEX, BODY IMAGE, ÍNDICE DE INSATISFACCIÓN, ÍNDICE DE DISTORSIÓN, IMAGEN CORPORAL
