Soto Ruiz Ma Nelia, Marin Fernández Blanca, Aguinaga Ontoso Inés, Guillén-Grima Francisco, Serrano Mozó Inmaculada, Canga Armayor Navidad, Hermoso de Mendoza Cantón Juana, Stock Christiane, Kraemer Alexander, Annan James
Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, UPNA, Pamplona. España..
Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria y Materno-Infantil, Universidad de Navarra. España..
Nutr Hosp. 2015 May 1;31(5):2269-75. doi: 10.3305/nh.2015.31.5.7418.
Current models of beauty represent an extreme thinness in the women and a muscular body in the men. The body image perception will condition the search of ideal beauty through different behaviors and can be transform in eating disorders. The university students, with the changes typical of youth and university transition, are a vulnerable group.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the body image perception of university students in Navarra.
The study included 1162 subjects of which 64.2% were female. Students asked for a self-managed questionnaire and they were weighted and heighted to calculate the body mass index (BMI). Their body image perception were obtained asking the students to select a picture, according to their perception which corresponded to their current body image from nine different silhouettes for men and women. Their BMI were calculated and compared with their perceived BMI.
43.03% of students, overestimated their body image (10.65% in males and 59.69% in females) and 10.20% of students underestimated it. 46.75% of students had concordance between BMI and body image perception.
There were more cases the alterations in the body image perception in women. In general, women saw themselves as being fatter than really were while men saw themselves as being thinner than they really were. The results shown that the women were more worried about their weight and body image than the men.
当前的审美模式呈现出女性极端消瘦、男性肌肉发达的形象。身体形象认知会通过不同行为影响对理想美的追求，并且可能转变为饮食失调。大学生处于青春和大学转型的典型变化期，是一个易受影响的群体。
本研究旨在评估纳瓦拉大学生的身体形象认知。
该研究纳入了1162名受试者，其中64.2%为女性。学生们填写了一份自我管理的问卷，并测量了体重和身高以计算体重指数（BMI）。通过让学生从九种不同的男女体型轮廓中选择一张与他们对自己当前身体形象认知相符的图片，来获取他们的身体形象认知。计算他们的BMI并与他们感知到的BMI进行比较。
43.03%的学生高估了自己的身体形象（男性为10.65%，女性为59.69%），10.20%的学生低估了自己的身体形象。46.75%的学生的BMI与身体形象认知一致。
女性身体形象认知改变的情况更多。总体而言，女性认为自己比实际更胖，而男性认为自己比实际更瘦。结果表明，女性比男性更担心自己的体重和身体形象。
