Open AccessBody Image Perception: Gender Differences among University Students
Author(s) -
Lia Breda-Vicentini,
Renan Alarcon Rossi,
Ângela Luciana De-Bortoli,
Robélius De-Bortoli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of practical studies in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2634-4629
DOI - 10.46809/jpse.v1i1.9
Subject(s) - perception , psychology , identity (music) , scale (ratio) , social psychology , self concept , human physical appearance , component (thermodynamics) , developmental psychology , physics , neuroscience , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , acoustics
Body image is an important component of the complex mechanism of personal identity. The subjective component of bodyimage refers to a person's satisfaction with their body size or specific parts of your body. The aim of this study was to verifythe ability to correlate body image with the actual image of others. This study presents empirical characteristics and crosssectionalstudy. Twenty-nine subject adults, students in Physical Education course and volunteers were selected randomly.The instrument used was based on the Scale of Silhouettes specially constructed for this study. Results showed that womenwere statistically different from men with average responses always with higher values. While we treat only the individualand their weight, the social standards accepted continue to exert a negative influence on people and their behavior.