Abstract
Thinness valoration. A cross-cultural study (Mexico / Spain). Because of its theoretical and practical consequences in the field of eating disorders, the main purpose of this study was to establish if the lo- wer body image dissatisfaction previously found among Spanish adolescents girls (X= 17 years old, S.D.= 0.12) when compared to Mexican adolescents girls, would be already present in younger girls -(X= 13.7 years old, S.D.= 0.96). Two non-probabilistic paired samples (age, years of study, and parents occupation) of adolescent's boys and girls; Spanish (n = 64) and Mexican (n = 69) were compared. The same types of response were found again: a) Spanish girls were satisfied with their body image while Mexican girls were dissatisfied; and b) Mexican women share a prototypical ideal model of body image. Results are discussed from the cross-cultural theoretical point of view.
