Imagen Corporal y Felicidad

Abstract

This article shows the relationship that happiness levels have with the discrepancy between how individuals see themselves corporately and the ideal they have constructed of the desired body image. The data used in this study comes from a cross-sectional survey on eating habits of individuals over 18 years of age in the city of Montevideo and metropolitan area carried out by the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. In general it was found that the discrepancy between the real and ideal image has a significant and negative relationship with the level of happiness.