Dis)statistician in image of body in academics of physical education and differ health area

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Gustavo Teixeira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Veloso, Ocinayra Kaline Cabral, Carvalho, Leyla Regis de Meneses Sousa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbone.com.br/index.php/rbone/article/view/1372
• topic: Body image; Physical Education; Students; Imagem corporal; Educação Física; Estudantes

Introduction: Currently the excessive search for the perfect body has been spreading and making this aspiration a risk factor for physical, mental, and social health of individuals, in this context the university students are not exempt. Objective: To compare the perception of body image in physical education students with academics from different health areas. Materials and Methods: Descriptive study with 192 female students of the bachelor's degree in Physical Education and health area with age 21.85 ± 4.63 from the city of Teresina-PI. Scales of female silhouettes validated by Kanno (2009) were used. In the statistical analysis, the free PSPP and R.A. softwares were used, the chi-square test was used to evaluate whether body dissatisfaction is associated with the areas of the courses studied. Results: In the discrepancy, the academics in the health area were moderately more dissatisfied, while the physical education students showed high and pathologically discrepant dissatisfaction. In the perception of the Real Image (IR), there was a higher predominance of eutrophy in the group of students in the health area, while in Physical Education they were perceived with silhouettes of hypertrophy, eutrophy and obesity, but in the Ideal Image (II) the group of physical education students idealized hypertrophied silhouettes and health students were divided between hypertrophy and eutrophy. Conclusion: Physical education students presented a higher percentage of body dissatisfaction in relation to students from other health areas.