Diferencias de género en la incidencia de los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) en los factores de personalidad del alumnado de educación secundaria
- Garrote Rojas, Daniel
- Palomares Ruiz, Ascensión
ISSN: 2386-3927, 2386-3927
Year of publication: 2011
Issue: 29
Pages: 95-109
Type: Article
More publications in: Enseñanza & Teaching: Revista interuniversitaria de didáctica
Abstract
This paper tries to know the obsession for the thinness or incessant search of the thinness, as essential characteristic of Eating Disorders, verify if significant differences exist according to the sex, to analyze the trend of students to have thoughts or to give them heavy meals �or gluttonies� uncontrollable, and verify the degree of dissatisfaction with the general form of their body or with the parts of the same one that more worried those who suffer Eating Disorders (stomach, hips, thighs, buttocks, etc). For it, we have used an eclectic methodology. The samples of students who have done the test epq-j is 700. The students analyzed in the sample show lacks in some areas at the personal level that they exhibit to suffer an Eating Disorders. There would be necessary to underline that, with regard to the emocionalidad, 7.73% of the men and 9.63% of the women prove to be anxious, worried, with fast changes of humor, frequently depressed, they sleep badly, etc., obtaining their representation, at the age of 13. There has been verified that, 12.26% of the males and 6.85% of the women are unsatisfied with their own body.