Correlatos da imagem corporal: uma explicação pautada na auto imagem e nos valos humanos / CORRELATES OF BODY IMAGE: AN EXPLANATION BASED ON SELF-CONSTRUALS AND HUMAN VALUES

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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ABSTRACT The current dissertation aimed at knowing to what extent the body image is connected with self-construals and human values. Specifically, it intended to investigate the relationship between dissatisfaction with the body and bodily investment, as well as to analyse the contribution of the independent and interdependent self-construals, and of the personal and social human values to the explanation of body dissatisfaction and bodily investment. Based on these aims, a study was conducted with 301 female university students from the city of Fortaleza/CE, with ages between 18 and 27 years (m = 21; sd = 2,0), with the majority characterized as middle class (63.5%) and single (85.4%). They answered a questionnaire composed by five parts: Bodily Investment Scale (BIS), Basic Values Survey (BVS), Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ), Self-Construal Scale (SCS), in addition to socio-demographic questions. Results showed that bodily investment is negatively correlated with dissatisfaction with one‟s own body (r = -0.43, p <.01). At the same time, it was found that the self-independent and interdependent and the personal and social values not satisfactorily explained the dissatisfaction with the body. Moreover, the independent self-image and social values served as significant predictors of the investment body, setting up such constructs as predictors of this variable.Therefore, although this was not considered the ultimate aim of this research and based on the literature review and on the observed correlations, two alternative models were tested to explain body dissatisfaction. The first model considered the independent self-construal leading to personal values, which would explain the bodily investment and the latter would lead negatively to dissatisfaction with the body. The second model tested included the interdependent self-construal leading to social values, which would predict the bodily investment explaining negatively body dissatisfaction. After running the analyses, it was observed that the second model showed adequate goodness of fit indexes with the data collected, based on the assumptions found on the literature:  (3) = 3.8, /gl = 1.28, GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.94, CFI= 0.98 and RMSEA = 0.03 (IC90% = 0.000 0.107). Depending on the results, we conclude that the objectives were reached, which may contribute to progress in this issue. Finally, it is recommended that further research in order to test the proposed model, considering different contexts and larger samples that are not limited to college students, thus allowing the confirmation of its setting and its appropriateness.

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human values valores humanos psicologia imagem corporal auto-imagem self-construals body imagem

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