Influence of body dissatisfaction and physical activity on the psychological well-being of young Mexican women
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v45i0.91097Keywords:
Physical activity habits, Body dissatisfaction, self-acceptance, personal growth, SEM.Abstract
The main objective of the present study was to examine the effect of dissatisfaction with body image and the practice of physical activity on the perception of psychological well-being in young Mexican women using a structural equation model. A total of 488 Mexican university students between the ages of 18 and 24 answered the short versions of Ryff's Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire, International Questionnaire on Physical Activity and Psychological Well-being. The results of the structural equations model showed that the practice of physical activity, through the subjective importance of physical shape and appearance, has a positive indirect effect on the perception of psychological well-being in the self-acceptance dimension and this in turn it has a direct positive effect on personal growth. The proposed model obtains a satisfactory fit, explaining 38% of the variance in the perception of psychological well-being in the dimension of personal growth (criterion variable).
References
Bassett-Gunter, R., McEwan, D., & Kamarhie, A. (2017). Physical activity and body image among men and boys: A meta-analysis. Body image, 22, 114-128.
Blanco, L. H., Viciana, J., Aguirre, J. F., Zueck, M. C., & Benavides, E. V. (2017). Composición factorial del Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) en universitarios mexicanos. Revista de Psicología del Deporte, 26(2), 113-118.
Blanchette-Sylvestre, M., & Meilleur, D. (2016). Activité physique et insatisfaction de l’image corporelle chez un groupe d’adolescentes. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 48(3), 204. doi: 10.1037/cbs0000029
Bucchianeri, M. M., Fernandes, N., Loth, K., Hannan, P. J., Eisenberg, M. E., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2016). Body dissatisfaction: Do associations with disordered eating and psychological well-being differ across race/ethnicity in adolescent girls and boys? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22(1), 137.
Byrne, B. M. (2016). Structural Equation Modeling With AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming. New York, NY: Routledge.
Campos, F., Marques, M., Silva, S., Martins, F., Simões, V., & Franco, S. (2017). Physical self-description and sport participation, by gender, of university students. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 17(1), 207. doi: 10.7752/jpes.2017.01031
Craig, C. L., Marshall, A. L., Sjöström, M., Bauman, A. E., Booth, M. L., Ainsworth, B. E., . . . Sallis, J. F. (2003). International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 35(8), 1381-1395. doi: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000078924.61453.FB
da Silva, S. d. L. R., Vicente, C., Amaro, S., & Campos, F. (2016). Gordura corporal, autoconceito físico geral, auto-estima e aparência física em estudantes universitários. Exedra: Revista Científica(1), 53-63.
de Oliveira, W. d. S., Lourenço, V. V., & Bandeira, N. N. (2017). Fatores associados à insatisfação com a imagem corporal em estudantes de Nutrição. RBONE-Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento, 11(62), 75-85.
Delextrat, A. A., Warner, S., Graham, S., & Neupert, E. (2016). An 8-week exercise intervention based on Zumba improves aerobic fitness and psychological well-being in healthy women. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 13(2), 131-139. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2014-0535
Gillen, M. M. (2015). Associations between positive body image and indicators of men's and women's mental and physical health. Body image, 13, 67-74. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.01.002
Gillen, M. M., & Dunaev, J. (2017). Body appreciation, interest in cosmetic enhancements, and need for uniqueness among US college students. Body image, 22, 136-143. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.06.008
Grogan, S. (2016). Introduction Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children (Third ed., pp. 1-10): Routledge.
International Physical Activity Questionnaire. (2005). Guidelines for data processing and analysis of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ); Short and long forms. https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=5641f4c36143250eac8b45b7&assetKey=AS%3A294237418606593%401447163075131
Jáuregui, I., & Bolaños, P. (2010). Body image and quality of life in a Spanish population. International Journal of General Medicine, 4, 63-72. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S16201
Jurado, P. J., Benitez, Z. P., Mondaca, F., Rodríguez, J. M., & Blanco, J. R. (2017). Análisis de las propiedades psicométricas del Cuestionario de Bienestar Psicológico de Ryff en universitarios mexicanos. Acta Universitaria, 27(5), 76-82. doi: 10.15174/au.2017.1648
Kalkhoran, J. F., Amini, H., & Abbasgholipour, A. (2016). Health indicators (physical and mental) Case study: University of Tehran students. Academic Journal of Psychological Studies, 5(1).
Keshk, M. M., Fahim, H. I., Hassan, A. M., & Boulos, D. N. (2019). Body Image Perception and Self-Esteem among University Students in Cairo. Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine, 37(1).
Kline, R. B. (2011). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. New York: Guilford Press.
Lubans, D., Richards, J., Hillman, C., Faulkner, G., Beauchamp, M., Nilsson, M., . . . Biddle, S. (2016). Physical activity for cognitive and mental health in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms. Pediatrics, 138(3), 1-15. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-1642
Margolis, S. E., & Orsillo, S. M. (2016). Acceptance and body dissatisfaction: Examining the efficacy of a brief acceptance based intervention for body dissatisfaction in college women. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 44(4), 482-492. doi: 10.1017/S1352465816000072
Martin, K. A., & Bassett, R. L. (2012). Exercise and Changes in Body Image. In T. F. Cash & L. Smolak (Eds.), Body Image A Handbook of Science, Practice an Prevention (pp. 378-386). New York: Guilford Press.
Martínez, L., Herrera, J. R., Kelen, L., & Leonardo, S. K. (2016). Nível de atividade física de estudantes universitários com e sem distúrbio da imagem corporal. Pensar a Prática, 19(1). doi: 10.5216/rpp.v19i1.35220
McMahon, E. M., Corcoran, P., O’Regan, G., Keeley, H., Cannon, M., Carli, V., . . . Apter, A. (2017). Physical activity in European adolescents and associations with anxiety, depression and well-being. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 26(1), 111-122. doi: 10.1007/s00787-016-0875-9
Moreno, J. A., & Cervelló, E. (2011). Relación de los motivos de práctica deportiva en adolescentes con la percepción de competencia, imagen corporal y hábitos saludables. Cultura y Educación, 23(4), 533-542.
Murnen, S. K. (2012). Gender and Body Images. In T. F. Cash & L. Smolak (Eds.), Body Image A Handbook of Science, Practice an Prevention (pp. 173-179). New York: Guilford Press.
Pereira, G. (2015). Estética e imagem corporal de mulheres jovens. (Mestre), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso.
Pieper, T. R., & Cordova, M. E. (2018). Percepção da imagem corporal e risco de transtornos alimentares em universitárias. RBONE-Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento, 12(74), 796-803.
Revelle, W., & Zinbarg, R. E. (2009). Coefficients alpha, beta, omega and the glb: comments on Sijtsma. Psychometrika, 74(1), 145-154. doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9102-z
Rodríguez, M. N., & Ruiz, M. A. (2008). Atenuación de la asimetría y de la curtosis de las puntuaciones observadas mediante transformaciones de variables: Incidencia sobre la estructura factorial. Psicológica, 29, 205-227.
Şanlier, N., Türközü, D., & Toka, O. (2016). Body image, food addiction, depression, and body mass index in university students. Ecology of food and nutrition, 55(6), 491-507. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2016.1219951
Thompson, B. (2004). Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Understanding concepts and applications. . Washington, D C: American Psychological Association.
West, S. G., Finch, J. F., & Curran, P. J. (1995). Structural equation models with nonnormal variables: Problems and remedies. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Structural equation modeling: Concepts, issues and applications (pp. 56-75). Newbery Park: Sage.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Humberto Blanco Vega, Perla Jannet Jurado García, Carolina Jiménez Lira, Susana Ivonne Aguirre Vásquez, Jesús Enrique Peinado Pérez, Juan Francisco Aguirre Chávez, María Del Carmen Zueck Enríquez, José René Blanco Ornelas
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and ensure the magazine the right to be the first publication of the work as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of authorship of the work and the initial publication in this magazine.
- Authors can establish separate additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (eg, to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Is allowed and authors are encouraged to disseminate their work electronically (eg, in institutional repositories or on their own website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as to a subpoena more Early and more of published work (See The Effect of Open Access) (in English).
This journal provides immediate open access to its content (BOAI, http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess) on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The authors may download the papers from the journal website, or will be provided with the PDF version of the article via e-mail.
