Análise da prevalência de dismorfia muscular em professores de musculação em academias na Ser II do Município de Fortaleza

Abstract

In a society that emphasizes individualism, superficiality and power, the body appears to be the main focus of social representation of these aspects. The cult of the muscular body has a strong relationship with the synonym of power and virility, and realized that the recantation to the image of the gods. In the West, from ancient Greece, there is the cult and the search for the "perfect body." Currently, this culture has contributed to the emergence of psychiatric disorders, such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and consumption of gene ergo substances in order to achieve the dreamed ideal body faster. Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a kind of psychological change is described as a spectrum of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It is placed in the category of psychiatric disorders DSM-IV. The disease is characterized by the non-self recognition of body image. The subject can not recognize or identify his distorted perception. We can understand the Muscle Dysmorphia as a disorder that takes the subject to imagine less muscular, media influence and the very multidimensional construction of being, they are associated factors that give intellectual substrate for building the perfect image or desired that the individual seeks to have . Usually affects men who have, in most cases, between 17 and 30 years. The study aimed to partially realize the occurrence of muscular dysmorphia and body dissatisfaction levels between weight training teachers in academies located in SER II in Fortaleza, Ceará. They interviewed 50 male teachers, between 20 and 45 years. Three questionnaires were applied, and the Questionnaire Adonis Complex, Damasceno silhouettes scale and socio-demographic questionnaire. No significant data on the involvement by teachers, dysmorphia muscular, however, the level of body dissatisfaction, the index was considered high. The results found suggests that the great dissatisfaction with their self image, teachers can develop some self image disorder in the future, indicating a need for specific work by the physical education teachers on this topic