Dissatisfaction with Body Image and Development of Food Disorders in Dancers - An Integrative Literature Review

Abstract

Introduction: The eating disorders (ED) are psychological distress responsible for causing negative effects with how the individuals see themselves. They are classified in two main categories: Anorexia and Bulimia. Researchers show that students from Health field, practitioners of sport, dancers are more predisposed to the ED development.

Goal: to identify on literature corporal dissatisfaction in dancers and their associated factors relating them to eating disorders development.

Methodology: Through the LILACS, BVS and MEDLINE databases, studies from the past ten years on dissatisfaction with body image and the development of Eating Disorders were gathered. For the search, health descriptors such as Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and Dance.

Results and discussion: On the results, it was viewed that the corporal dissatisfaction is categorically present in the lives of the dancers, once it showed present in 80 % of the analysed articles. Critical comments, expectation put by society and the coach’s opinion are related factors for the dissatisfaction with the body.

Conclusion: it concludes that the corporal dissatisfaction is present in the group of dancers, being one of the main factors for the Eating disorder development