Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of differences in the tendency to healthy behavior disorders in women with different body mass index. Subgroup A included women with insufficient and normal body weight, subgroup B consisted of women with excess body weight and obesity. The body mass index was determined by the Quetelet formula. The study was conducted using the questionnaire «Healthy Behavior Disorders» developed by E.L. Lutsenko and O.E. Gabelkova. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was carried out using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U criterion for comparing two independent samples, as well as the rank correlation coefficient r-Spearman. In conclusion, it is concluded that women with insufficient and normal body weight, in contrast to women with excess body weight and obesity, have a higher statistically confirmed level of self-destructive behavior. The composition and nature of the relationships in the structure of healthy behavior disorders in slender women (subgroup A) include the following parameters — disregard for safety, craving for smoking, self-destructive behavior, craving for alcohol, low self-control, eating disorders and emotional incompetence and allows us to classify it as a self-destructive type. The composition and relationship of the parameters of healthy behavior disorders in women prone to fullness and obesity (subgroup B) include eating disorders, emotional incompetence, low self-control, craving for smoking and alcohol, as well as the pursuit of a fashionable image and can be characterized as an uncontrolled type of healthy behavior disorders. The data obtained can be used in psychocorrectional and psychoprophylactic work with people at risk of health-preserving behavior disorders.
DOI: 10.15862/16psmn125
Authors: Nataliya Komerova, Louisa Yetumyan, Evgeniya Medvedeva
Language: English
Topic: Health and Lifestyle Studies
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409502019