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[Body aesthetic model, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in adolescents]
Ana Figueroa-Rodríguez1, Osiris García-Rocha, Ana Revilla-Reyes
1Universidad de Colima, Colima, México.
Objective:
To identify the relationship between the ideal aesthetic body shape model, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in adolescent women.
Methods:
A cross-sectional analytic design research was carried out in a sample of 257, 15 to 19 year old female high school students. Data were compiled with the Brief Questionnaire for Risky Eating Behaviors (BQREB), the Visual Scale of Body Satisfaction for adolescents and the Sociocultural Influences on the Aesthetic Body Shape Model Questionnaire (ABSMQ).
Results:
8.3 % of participants were high scorers for the BQREB, from the restrictive type mainly. The ABSMQ subscales positively correlated with body dissatisfaction and risky eating behaviors, the strongest being body image dissatisfaction.
Conclusions:
The influence of publicity and social models, were found to be related to body image dissatisfaction and to eating disorder among the adolescents from the sample.
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