Body perception, dissatisfaction and quality of life in university women in Pereira, Colombia

Londoño Valencia, Rincón Bejarano, Cubillos Lizcano, Acevedo Osorio and Acosta

Health Leadership and Quality of Life, 2022, vol. 1, 84

Abstract: Objective: To establish the degree of dissatisfaction and distortion of body image in university women in the municipality of Pereira, Colombia Methods: The Standard Figural Stimuli (SFS) scale was used to identify the degree of body dissatisfaction, the SCOFF questionnaire to determine the presence of eating disorders (ED) and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale for the degree of distortion of the body. body image. Results: It was possible to characterize socio-demographically the population under study, the mean age was 23.3 and the single marital status with a percentage of 85%, it was possible to identify the degree of dissatisfaction and distortion of the body image presented In the women who participated in the study, 24% of the women with overweight or some type of obesity, considered themselves with a normal silhouette, for which we can infer that there is a degree of distortion of the body image, it was established that the 28% of the population suffers from eating disorders and it was finally established that 71.2% of the population has high self-esteem, the remaining percentage medium and low self-esteem. Conclusions: Multiple truly significant data were found, the results of this study lead us to consider that there is really a significant degree of dissatisfaction and distortion in the body image of many university women, because the image with which they identify differs from that of image they wish they had

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.56294/hl202284

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