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Title: Influencia del apego en la obesidad
Author: Madoz Ibáñez, Ainhoa Paula
Tutor: Arroyo Fernández, Andrea
Abstract: Attachment is the need that human beings have to develop affective bonds with their primary caregivers in order to obtain security, trust and affection, characteristics that will help them adapt to their environment. Attachment style can be classified into two categories: secure and insecure. Children with a secure attachment style show greater confidence in themselves and in their exploration of their environment, being open to receiving support and achieving greater autonomy. Children with insecure attachment have difficulties in relating to others as they view the environment as threatening and dangerous and their caregivers as intrusive and unstable, so they interrupt their exploration because of the levels of distress and insecurity they suffer. Obesity is currently one of the biggest public health problems, being one of the risk factors of premature mortality worldwide. The objective of this study is to analyze the effects that attachment has on the development of obesity. A descriptive study of the literature review on the influence of attachment on obesity is made from a search of publications related to the terms of attachment and obesity in the Pubmed database, Google Scholar, Dialnet and ProQuest. The selected studies show that there is a significant influence of attachment in all the evolutionary stages of human beings both in the development of the obesity and in its treatment, and insecure attachment is identified as the most predominant attachment style. These results can bring us closer to developing optimal intervention strategies to eradicate this obesity epidemic.
Keywords: attachment
obesity
nutrition
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jan-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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