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The objective of our study is to pinpoint the relation between perceived image in social setting and the image determined by physical development indices. Representations are generated by members of a group, thus being part of its structure, but they can be far from reality, which says something about the diversity and complexity of taking over propagated messages. If representation is in agreement with reality, subjects are anchored in the surrounding environment, they perceive life as it is; if the representation of their own body differs from quantifiable indices considered important in the analysis of hypothesis validity, the communication between subjects and the world is deformed. After analyzing the correlations between the independent variables and the dependent variable, we determined the connections between the social representation of the body and body mass – more precisely, body mass index.
Keywords: social representation, body image, physical development
