Perception of Body Image in Teenagers in Physical Education Classes

• Autor(a) principal: Catunda,Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Marques,Adilson, Januário,Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1646-107X2017000600013
• topic: body image; physical education; adolescents; intervention program

This study showed the objectives to evaluate the self-perception of body image in adolescents, raising the issues related to the physical aspects and the physical education classes. The design of this research was qualitative and quantitative nature, associated with the field research of experimental and comparative type. In the experimental phase was the implementation of an intervention program in relation to body image. In the quantitative study, met the perception of body image of 102 students with a mean of 15.5 (± 1.2) years of age, 50 adolescents from the experimental school (49.0%) and 52 adolescents in the control school (51.0%), enrolled in classes of 1st and 2nd year of high school in the public-school network. In experimental school there was a significant improvement to the program in the perception that the girls had on their body image. In the qualitative study parse through 8 focus groups (48 students) the issue focus of research from personal experiences. The students showed a high rate of dissatisfaction with the body and the willingness to take risk behaviors in pursuit of the ideal body with better results after the program. The approach on body image in Physical Education was nonexistent.