Afirmación del yo corporal a través de un programa de mejora del autoconceptoen universitarios/as

Abstract

The use of a specific program of body-expression for University students has proved to have a beneficialeffect on their academic performance, at the same time that has helped them acquire a moreprecise body concept of their limitations, skills and possible proficiencies to develop. The consciouswork with the body by means of drills that measure the level of motivation when executed, the perceivedskill and the belief of self-efficiency of their body interventions, make the subjects assess the valueof their bodies and their liking, because of the personal compromise involved in the self-evaluationduring the process. The type of evaluaton the subject makes is both qualitative and quantitative overthe sessions, so that s/he is receiving constant information on how the body improves in its process ofbody-conscience, both intra- and inter-personally.Body responses are analyzed to proposed situations where the student will have to face her/himself, and sometimes an audience, qualifying them to solve situations that are usually met, in orderto improve their discourse and also overcome the stage-fright, so as to offer an image according toeach moment’s reality. Group work and strategies to increase personal capacities in order to be morebodily competent, make the students improve their capacities, reassuring them, making them moreself-confident. All this ranslates into a better body knowledge, not only from the point of view of theirappearance and image, but also in the relation with their surroundings, assuring an improved bodyperception, communication and body expression, and a better knowledge of their self.