Self perception of body attractiveness in two cultures: Mexican and Argentine

dc.creatorAGUILAR MONTES DE OCA, YESSICA PAOLA; 381406
dc.creatorVALDEZ MEDINA, JOSE LUIS; 15808
dc.creatorPLIEGO BLANQUET, EDUARDO RAUL;x1232863
dc.creatorTORRES MUÑOZ, MARTHA ADELINA; 380964
dc.creatorGONZALEZ ARRATIA LOPEZ FUENTES, NORMA IVONNE; 216848
dc.creatorAGUILAR MONTES DE OCA, YESSICA PAOLA
dc.creatorVALDEZ MEDINA, JOSE LUIS
dc.creatorPLIEGO BLANQUET, EDUARDO RAUL
dc.creatorTORRES MUÑOZ, MARTHA ADELINA
dc.creatorGONZALEZ ARRATIA LOPEZ FUENTES, NORMA IVONNE
dc.date2016-03-16T17:20:23Z
dc.date2016-03-16T17:20:23Z
dc.date2015
dc.identifierhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=425741623006
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/40372
dc.descriptionIn order to describe the level of physical attractiveness that mexican and argentine consider having, we worked with an intentional non-probabilistic sample composed of 272 university students shared equally by nationality and gender from the cities of Toluca (Mexico) and Mendoza (Argentina). The instrument used was physical attractiveness assessment, which evaluates the attractiveness of the visible body parts from 0 to 100%. The research findings by nationality show that mexican people value more their body parts compared with argentinean. Sex differences indicate that mexican men tend to consider more attractive their body parts than mexican women. However, argentinean people show no difference in the number of body parts evaluated as attractive. In both nationalities, there is a tendency to put a higher value on body parts considered masculine by men and feminine by women. In general, it appears that the body is and will remain an important mean of expression and the value that it is given will establish the degree of security that people has to relate to their particular psychological, sociological and cultural context.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4257
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.sourceRevista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios (México) Num.1 Vol.6
dc.subjectsalud
dc.subjectattractiveness
dc.subjectmexicans
dc.subjectargentines
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectmen
dc.subjectHUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
dc.titleSelf perception of body attractiveness in two cultures: Mexican and Argentine
dc.typeArtículo
dc.typearticle


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