Relação entre violência familiar e insatisfação com a imagem corporal em adolescentes

Abstract

The main objective of this Dissertation was to investigate the relationship between family violence (FV) and dissatisfaction with the body image (DBI) in adolescents. Using the baseline of the Estudo Longitudinal de Avaliação Nutricional de Adolescentes (ELANA), a transversal study was realized in 2010 in six schools (two public and four private) of Rio de Janeiro, Niterói and São Gonçalo. The sample included 1039 adolescents from the first year of high school, with ages varying from 13 to 19 years old. The family violence endured during childhood (previous FV) was evaluated with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the present violence, endured during adolescence (current FV), was evaluated with the Conflict Tactics Scale Form R (CTS1), and the dissatisfaction with the body image was evaluated with the Body Silhouettes Scale. The analysis were done using multinomial logistic regression. From the 1039 adolescents, 53,4% were females. The dissatisfaction prevalence with the body image was 75,1%, being that 41,3% of males desired to have a larger silhouette. There was no association between the previous FV (psychological and physical) and DBI for both genders. Among the boys, the psychological violence endured during adolescence (current FV) raised the probability of wishing for a thinner silhouette (OR=2,64; IC 95%: 1,13 6,15); and larger (OR=2,36; IC 95%: 1,21 4,61). The current physical violence showed inverse relation for those who wish for a silhouette considerably thinner (OR=0,42; IC 95%: 0,23 0,79), and larger (OR=0,61; IC 95%: 0,36 1,01). Among the girls, the psychological violence has raised the probability chance of wanting for a larger silhouette (OR=2,93; IC 95%: 1,07 7,95). The results indicate that psychological FV and physical FV are risk factors for DBI.