The Obese Body and Self Perception

Authors

  • Carolina Zottis
  • Liliana Maria Labronici

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v7i2.1665

Keywords:

Nursing, Body image, Obesity.

Abstract

This is a phenomenological enlightenment
research grew in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s fought, which
objective is to comprehend the obese body perception about
himself. There were realized 10 recorded interviews from
January 20,h to February 20m/2003 with obese clients in
attendance at the nutritional clinic of a big teaching hospital
in the city of Curitiba. The speeches’ analysis happened
by the three moments the description, the reduction and
the phenomenological comprehension, what permitted the
identification of a thematic unit which was subjectively classified
as “the body image alteration bringing sadness feeling
and the isolation”. Was evidenced that the self protection
mechanisms, body denial and the isolation are f requent
behaviors and they are aligned to the low self steam in the
obese bodies. These mechanisms are relatively unconscious,
wrapping up self deception and reality alteration,
maybe constitute bad adapted answers to the stress. The
body image alteration added to low self steam in the obese
bodies are behaviors which mean dissatisfaction to themselves.
Was evidenced that the society, by determining the
beauty standards of “skinny - beauty”, at the same time that
excludes the obese bodies form his environment, provokes
disdain feelings and worthiness related to themselves.

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Zottis, C., & Labronici, L. M. (2002). The Obese Body and Self Perception. Cogitare Enfermagem, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v7i2.1665

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2002)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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