Relación entre autoestima y riesgo a presentar trastornos de conducta alimentaria en adolescentes de la Unidad Educativa San José de la Salle, en Cuenca-Azuay, período 2021

Abstract

Eating disorders are constantly growing, mainly in female adolescents and women are evaluated based on how they perceive themselves physically. There are risk factors that could complicate this problem, self-esteem is one of them, since being low could cause the person to start exercising behaviors against their physical and mental health. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between self-esteem and the risk of presenting Eating Disorders in adolescents of the San José de la Salle de Cuenca-Azuay educational unit, in the period 2021. This research had an approach quantitative, crosssectional, non-experimental and a correlational scope. The population was 153 students who agreed to be part of the research. The Rosenberg scale for self-esteem, the EDI 3 RF were applied to assess the risk of presenting an eating disorder and a demographic card to obtain characteristics of each participant. The results indicate that the obsession with thinness, bulimia and body dissatisfaction present moderate negative relationships with: total self-esteem and positive self-esteem attitudes, indicating that, the higher the selfesteem, the lower the risk of eating disorders; likewise, there is a low tendency to develop eating pathologies and a moderate-high self-esteem in most adolescents. It is concluded that, since there is a high self-esteem in most of the students and a low tendency to present eating disorders, self-esteem does act as a protective factor against these pathologies.