Factors associated with unsatisfaction with body image in professional dancers
Abstract
Concern about body aesthetics in dance related to dissatisfaction with body image (BI). The objective of this study was to investigate the dissatisfaction with BI and to verify that factors are specifically associated to the dissatisfaction for thinness and overweight in professional dancers of both genders. The study was attended by 181 professional dancers (54.1% female and 45.9% male), with a mean age of 24.36 years, from the main dance companies in the south and southeast of Brazil. A self-administered questionnaire was used, in which the dancers answered questions about general and anthropometric information (BMI), BI (silhouettes scale), eating disorder (EAT 26). Non-parametric descriptive and inferential statistics (chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression) were used, adopting a significance level of p ≤ 0.05. The results indicated that the prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image was 60.8%, and the proportion of body dissatisfaction was higher due to overweight (45.3% dissatisfied with excess weight) among professional dancers. Significant associations of overweight dissatisfaction with the female gender (OR: 3.79), the classical dance (OR: 3.79) and the presence of TA symptoms (OR: 3.83) were found. Likewise, there were significant differences between the dissatisfaction with the leanness in the study and the age group (OR: 3.40). It concluded that the investigated dancers presented dissatisfaction with their body image, being associated to age when dissatisfied by thinness, and to gender, dance style and TA symptoms when dissatisfied with being overweight.
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