Relación entre imagen corporal, depresión y alexitimia en dismorfia muscular: revisión sistemática

Introduction. Muscle Dysmorphia (DM) is a disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with muscularity, with health consequences and unclear triggers. Objective: Analyze the relationship between DM, body dissatisfaction (IC), depression (DEP), and alexithymia (AL) in literature. Method: A systematic review following the PRISMA guidelines. Search was conducted in PubMed, Dialnet, Elsevier, ProQuest, and Google Scholar using Boolean operators ("AND"), filtering for articles from the last 10 years. Results: The 8 included studies showed significant positive correlations between MD and IC (Lin and DeCusati r=.33, p=