Body dissatisfaction and anxiety: gender asymmetries
Resumen:
In this paper we discuss the association between body dissatisfaction, measured as the difference between actual and ideal body image, and anxiety, a mental health condition that affects an individual’s quality of life. We focus on two issues. First, whether there are gender asymmetries in this association. Our results suggest that women’s anxiety events are significantly more correlated with body dissatisfaction than for men. Second, we analyze two measures of anxiety: a subjective perceived episode of anxiety and a diagnosis of anxiety by a physician. Our findings suggest that the subjective measure overestimates the association between body dissatisfaction and anxiety.
En este artículo discutimos la asociación entre la insatisfacción corporal, medida como la diferencia entre la imagen corporal real e ideal, y la ansiedad, una condición de salud mental que afecta la calidad de vida de un individuo. Nos centramos en dos aspectos. Primero, si existen asimetrías de género en esta asociación. Nuestros resultados sugieren que los eventos de ansiedad de las mujeres presentan una mayor correlación significativa con la insatisfacción corporal que los de los hombres. En segundo lugar, analizamos dos medidas de ansiedad: un episodio de ansiedad subjetiva percibida por el individuo y un diagnóstico de ansiedad por parte de un médico. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que la medida subjetiva sobreestima la asociación entre la insatisfacción corporal y la ansiedad.
2020 | |
Body image Dissatisfaction Gender Anxiety Imagen corporal Insatisfacción Género Ansiedad |
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Universidad de la República | |
COLIBRI | |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/25965 | |
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Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0) |
Sumario: | In this paper we discuss the association between body dissatisfaction, measured as the difference between actual and ideal body image, and anxiety, a mental health condition that affects an individual’s quality of life. We focus on two issues. First, whether there are gender asymmetries in this association. Our results suggest that women’s anxiety events are significantly more correlated with body dissatisfaction than for men. Second, we analyze two measures of anxiety: a subjective perceived episode of anxiety and a diagnosis of anxiety by a physician. Our findings suggest that the subjective measure overestimates the association between body dissatisfaction and anxiety. |
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