LA ANSIEDAD Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA CONDUCTA ALIMENTARIA EN PERSONAS CON OBESIDAD

Abstract

This study is a contribution to science and knowledge, for the entire university community (teachers- students), in order to make known in what measures anxiety as a disorder of human behavior, has a direct impact on eating behavior of an individual. The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between levels of anxiety, compared to eating behavior present in overweight people, the "Portoviejo Fiscal Education Unit, and what are the most relevant factors within the psyche that determine these symbiotic processes that directly influence the soma. For the following study, the type of cross-sectional correlational research was chosen, since it allows to evaluate the variables of the selected samples and to determine in what measures these variables are related. Anxiety and obesity are two pathological conditions that are intimately linked due to their clinical interrelations. This study, made to the students of the Unidad Educativa Portoviejo, took as a sample people suffering from obesity in order to find affinity between these two variables. Through application of psychological batteries and other data collection tools, it was concluded that 55% of the participants with obesity suffered from severe anxiety. The results presented in this study allow us to understand the predictive factors that may affect the management of stress and the strategies that people will generate in situations of emotional risk.