Values in university students in the health area and BMI

Abstract

Psychologists, sociologists and pedagogues have carried out different investigations and have developed numerous instruments in order to diagnose, as accurately as possible, the values preferred by individuals and groups. Among them we can mention: the studies of values carried out by Allport and collaborators (1970) and Kopelman and collaborators (2003). Considering as ideal values the theoretical, economic, aesthetic, political, social and religious. Method: Type of study: analytical cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 179 first-year students and 68 fourth-year students of the medical and surgical career. Dependent variables: Values (theoretical, economic, social, aesthetic, religious and political). Independent variables: age, sex, average, school year, weight and height. Results: Predominance of theoretical value was found in both groups, but higher in first-year students compared to fourth-year students, and predominance of religious value for fourth-year students compared to first-year students. Conclusions: certain changes could be confirmed in the participants of this study, on the one hand, the predominance of the female sex or, the weight gain at the end of the race, the importance of the theoretical value, but its decrease at the end of it, the minor importance of religious value, but that increases at the end of the degree, having a set of values very important for every person, in an integral and harmonic way.