La Apreciación Corporal se define como la capacidad de aceptar, respetar y mantener opiniones favorables hacia el propio cuerpo, resistiendo a las presiones socioculturales que promueven estándares de belleza irreales. El objetivo de la presente investigación fue analizar las propiedades psicométricas de los puntajes obtenidos con la Escala de Apreciación Corporal [BAS-2] de Tylka y Wood-Barcalow (2015) en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios peruanos, la cual estuvo conformada por 589 participantes entre 18 y 56 años perteneciente a distintas carreras profesionales. Al analizar los patrones de respuesta a los ítems se encontraron correlaciones positivas que indican monotonicidad. Como evidencias de validez, al evaluar la estructura interna a través de un análisis factorial confirmatorio, se encontró un modelo unidimensional de 7 ítems con medidas de ajuste ideales. Adem�...

The present study aims to analyze the prevalence of depressive symptoms and its sociodemographic-associated factors in Peruvian adults. Data was extracted from a nation-wide representative survey in which depression symptoms were measured with the PHQ-9 and sociodemographic information was extracted from household data. Depression severity rates were estimated for each symptom, and responses were modeled through the Rating Scale Model to obtain a depression measure used as dependent variable on a Generalized Mixed Linear Model. The most frequent depression symptoms were emotional, such as discouragement, sad mood, hopelessness, and lack of pleasure when doing activities. Our model showed that, after controlling the effects of all the variables considered, the most relevant predictors were gender, education level, physiographic region, age, marital status, and number of coresidents. Highe...