Body image in university students from Extremadura of the Faculty of Education after COVID-19
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university students, body image, gender, educational specialty, age, body mass index, health.Abstract
Body image is an important multidimensional factor in adherence to physical activity as well as for psychological and social well-being, yet it is generally not given the importance it deserves, especially after the pandemic that has occurred in recent years. A questionnaire was presented using the Google Forms tool to find out what university students thought about its management of self-perception of body image. A non-probability selection strategy based on coexistence sampling was used to pick 288 students for the study. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine the links between the various items and dimensions according to sex and education specialty, and the Spearman's Rho test was used to see if there was a relationship between age and body mass index and their replies in the various dimensions. The results showed that despite an acceptable perception of their corporate image by the sample analyzed, there are gender and inter-specialty differences. Thus, it can be concluded that public organizations should develop lines of action to improve and maintain good body image perceptions in this population.
Keywords: university students, body image, gender, educational specialty, age, body mass index, health.
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