UNSATISFACTION OF BODY IMAGE IN DIFFERENT MATURATIONAL STAGES
UNSATISFACTION OF BODY IMAGE IN DIFFERENT MATURATIONAL STAGES
Maturity is considered as a process and implies progress towards maturity. With the biological changes and the maturational process the adolescents incorporate their new corporal images. The present study aims to analyze the association of body image dissatisfaction in different maturational stages. We evaluated 207 subjects, schoolchildren, of both sexes, aged between 10 and 12 years. It was used the bone age prediction protocols (CABRAL, 2011) and for the evaluation of the Body Image was used the scale of silhouettes (KAKESHITA, 2009) and the program (software) SOMATOTYPE calculation and analysis®, 2001- Swet Techonolies. The statistical tests used were chi-square, intraclass correlation (ICC), with the respective confidence intervals (95% CI) and the Bland and Altman plot. The level of significance was set at p <0.05 for all analyzes. The prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image was 63.8% p <0.001, being 67.1% in males p = 0.002 and 61.6% in females p = 0.009. In both sexes subjects with accelerated maturation are dissatisfied with Body Image (girls p = 0.01-boys p = 0.04) wishing to decrease their silhouette scale p <0.001. When we report to the intraclass correlation of the current and desired body image the subjects who are with the accelerated maturation have more agreement when compared to the other stages. The same does not happen with real and relative BMI, where in all maturational stages there is agreement. It can be concluded that in all maturational stages there is dissatisfaction with body image, but in the delayed and accelerated stage there is a higher prevalence. There is greater concordance of current and desired body image at the accelerated stage. There was concordance of real and relative BMI at all maturational stages.