Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 2014, 3, 348-354 Published Online October 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojmp http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojmp.2014.35036 How to cite this paper: Vega, H.B., Chávez, J.F.A., Rodríguez-Villalobos, J.M., Ornelas, J.R.B. and López, H.L.M. (2014) Body Image Anxiety on University Students (Differences between Men and Women). Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 3, 348- 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojmp.2014.35036 Body Image Anxiety on University Students (Differences between Men and Women) Humberto Blanco Vega, Juan Francisco Aguirre Chávez, Judith Margarita Rodríguez-Villalobos, José René Blanco Ornelas, Héctor Luis Medina López * Faculty of Physical Culture Sciences, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México Email: * Lópezhmedina@uach.mx Received 10 August 2014; revised 10 September 2014; accepted 7 October 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The aim of this research lies on comparing anxiety body image profiles between male and female university students. A total sample of 2089 freshmen—902 women and 1187 men is from the dif- ferent degrees offered by the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, with an average age of 18.23 ± 0.74 years. The approach used in the research is part of a quantitative design with a survey de- scription. The differences found between men and women regarding their own perception of an- xiety suggest that when designing any kind of intervention that aims at the decreasingly perceived anxiety, the gender variable will have to be taken into account. Future investigations should re- spond to these discoveries in larger samples. Keywords Students’ Beliefs, Gender Differences, Higher Education, Academic Performance, Students’ Characteristics 1. Introduction The ideal thin weight and worries about weight come from a cultural idea that even nowadays is considered es- thetic. It is just a fashion and it is not necessarily healthy or accessible, which may have negative consequences that generate anxiety such as a great worry about weight and having good physical shape which can be shown as body dissatisfaction that reveals how individuals value or despise their own bodies, and/or their body distortion, which is the lack of precision in determining the body size [1]. The body image and the esthetic norms that actually rule the occidental world can affect the physiological * Corresponding author.