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| Author(s): |
Gisele Straatmann
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2011-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Sebastião de Sousa Almeida;
Sandra Leal Calais;
Maria Aparecida Conti;
Telma Maria Braga Costa;
Carmem Beatriz Neufeld
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| Advisor: | Sebastião de Sousa Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This research aimed to investigate stress, body image coping strategies used by adolescents, body image and nutritional status. A sample of 166 girls and 47 boys, aged 15 to 18 years, was recruited from public high schools in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The main outcome measures used were Lipp Stress Symptoms Inventory, The Ways of Coping Questionnaire and Kakeshita, Silva, Zanatta and Almeida Figure Rating Scale. The WHO standards were used to evaluate the nutritional status. More than half of adolescents showed symptoms of stress and used significantly more all coping strategies in a situation of body discomfort compared with those without symptoms of stress. In general, the predominant body image coping strategies used by adolescents were emotion-focused coping. Girls used more strategies of self-control, escape-avoidance and positive reappraisal, whereas males used more escape-avoidance strategy. Negatively body dissatisfied adolescents had a greater likelihood of using accepting responsibility coping. Both genders were negatively body dissatisfied and showed positively body size estimation inaccuracy. Comparing both sexes, girls showed greater inaccuracy in body estimation than boys. The correlation between body dissatisfaction and body estimation inaccuracy was negative and moderate. Most of the the population studied was eutrophic. The results of this study may have important implications for prevention and development of a negative body image. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 07/08584-0 - Stress, coping and body image in adolescents: relations with nutritional state |
| Grantee: | Gisele Straatmann |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |