The Religious Value of the Body in Public and Private-Concerted Centers

Abstract

This article analyzes the differences and similarities in the values of the body of students from public and private-concertedreligious order centers, focusing on the religious value of the body as this is the main characteristic that it identifies asdifferent. 536 students from the 1st Baccalaureate of Castilla y León region of Spain participated in the study in theacademic year 2017/18. The test used is that of the values of the body of Casares and Collados (1998). Two differentiatedanalyzes, of mean and preferred values, are carried out using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results are shownin the form charts of scores, their graphic representations and the finally derived hierarchies or axiological ordering. Theanalysis of mean values also highlights statistically significant differences in the religious value of the body, showing lessdislike in students from private-concerted centers. For its part, the rest of the values are shared by both groups, thepleasure value being the undeniably hegemonic whatever the structured category. Both the differences and the similaritiesfound draw the profile represented by the body of the students, a reality to which any educational intervention in bodyvalues should conform.