Aspectos psicofísicos da imagem corporal e a sua relação com a dismorfia muscular e a dependência de exercício

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Carolina Paioli [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Body language; Linguagem corporal; Imagem corporal; Percepção; Corpo humano; Exercícios físicos - Aspesctos psicológicos
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/139402

The perception we have of our body is influenced by several factors and constant visual stimuli we receive from the environment, such as gender, age and culture. In recent years the preoccupation with the body between youth and adults was associated with obsessive behaviors such as excessive physical activity, steroid use and triggering eating disorders. Among men, the disorder associated with body image distortion is known as vigorexia or muscle dysmorphia. Muscle dysmorphia is characterized by a poor perception of body size, that is, the man is perceived smaller in size (e.g, muscle) than it actually is. The dysmorphia is associated with steroid use and excessive physical activity with fillers, such as weight training. Based on this information and based on the methodology proposed by Paula and Mauerberg-deCastro (2010), the objectives of our study were to investigate: a) men have exaggerated preoccupation with body image and that this is reflected in the responses of choice or preference Images of the body itself and a strange body distorted along a psychophysical scale (e.g, based on the BMI of the participants); b) if the participant's somatotype is related to the type of physical activity associated chosen frequency and intensity with which this is accomplished; c) if the attitudinal and perceptual tendency to psychophysical tasks of body image distortion depends on the participant's identity (e.g, using the failure to face the tasks). To do so, participated in the study 50 men and 25 practitioners participating in physical activity/sport allocated in sport group (GE), and 25 participants in order to significantly increase muscle mass (e.g, hypertrophy) allocated in the fitness group (GF). Participants responded to tests and inventories for the allocation in groups (demographic questionnaire, MASS and EDS-21 questionnaires); scale silhouettes to analyze the behavioral component of body image; and psychophysical magnitude estimation...