Percepções sobre o corpo em estudantes adolescentes da rede pública de ensino em Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

This study intends to analyze the perception of the students of a public school of Fortaleza on the body. To carry out the study, 15 students of both sexes were interviewed from the 8th grades of elementary school to the 3rd year of high school, and respondents were asked to answer questions related to the ideal body, satisfactions and dissatisfaction with their own Body and practices that have already performed related to ensure an ideal body. The analysis of the data was based on content analysis, where common opinions and excerpts of interviewees' speeches about the subject were identified. Concluding that the concern with the body in some adolescents is present and common, many reasons for satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the body were also pointed out on a large scale, with the presence of some points that are repeated among the participants, as well as the reflection of the practices Of the interviewees in body composition.