Insatisfacción con la imagen corporal en estudiantes de bachillerato de los colegios particulares mixtos . Cuenca. 2013-2014

Abstract

The teenager people compare the beauty social model´s with their own body, it generate a corporal wrong view that produces a wrong perception about their selfs.

Objective: to determinate the level of dissatisfaction with the corporal view in high school student´s in Cuenca.

Metodology: It is a descriptive study with 370 high school students in Cuenca by period 2013 – 2014. All the high school´s authorities has signed the authorization for the study, also, the students and their parents signed the consent and informed consent. The authors of the study apply the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). They get a database in SPSS V.15 system, this information was analyzed and it is shows by simple tables and doble entry tables, also they use descriptive statistics and central tendency.

Results: the middle age was 15 – 16 years, SD (Standar deviation) of 1,6 years. The most common gender was the female (55,7%). About 99,2% of students were singles and 48,1% studied in first year of high school. With the application of BSQ they gots about 11,9% with mild dissatisfaction; 8,6% moderate dissatisfaction and 2,7% extreme dissatisfaction. The dissatisfaction is increased with the age: 16 or under 16 years teenagers was 22,3% while 19 or over 19 years was 28,6%. About the gender, the females students got more dissatisfaction with corporal image (29,6%) in comparison with 15,2% of male´s students.

Conclusions: they gots a very important teenagers population with dissatisfaction with the corporal image; the authors thought in a propose or intervention to the good diagnosis and manage of this alterations.