¿Son los valores del cuerpo comunes en entornos rurales y urbanos?

Abstract

Introduction: identifying the values of the body of a social group means highlighting its particularities. Two social contexts are configured defined by their belonging to rural or urban environments. Objectives: the main objective is to find out if there are differences between these categories, in the body values, and if they are statistically significant. Methods: the study compares 367 students from urban environments and 169 from rural environments, making a total of 536 students of 1st Baccalaureate in the 2017/18 academic year. The measuring instrument is the test developed by Casares and Collados (1998) that classifies the body values in 10. The data treatment is carried out by means of two differentiated analyzes, of mean values and of preferred values. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are calculated. Results: the analysis of mean values finds the greatest differences in the values of the religious, intellectual and dynamic body, however none of these differences can be considered statistically significant. For its part, the analysis of preferred values highlights the main differences in the pleasure, affective-social and biological values. Discussion: the results draw a student population without great differences between rural and urban areas, despite the different presumed idiosyncrasies between both environments. Conclusions: this opens a debate on the differences that could be considered in educational plans depending on the context, underlining the importance of preserving the rural essence of the minority.