Editorial
Abstract
Based on sociologists and psychologists point of view , physical appearance is not only a psychological and biological phenomenon, but also it is considered as a social phenomenon. People’s evaluation from their appearance is affected by present ideals in society. According to physical appearance importance and consequences of dissatisfaction from that. in this paper we aim to study the relationship between body esteem and social physical anxiety with body evaluation. The method of study is survey and statistical population includes over 15 year old women of Tabriz from whom we choose 316 women as studying method through multi stage stratified method. Theoretical framework includes the social physical anxiety and body esteem theories result of descriptive and inferential statistics show that: Mean of body evaluation among subjects was more than average.
There is an inverse correlation between body evaluation and social physical anxiety.
There is a direct and significant correlation between body esteem and its sub indexes (ability, face attractivity, physical attractivity, sexual attractivity and weight scale).
%22 of changes related to social physical anxiety variable is explained by body esteem and its sub indexes.
%41 of changes related to body evaluation is explained by independent variables (ability, face attractivity, physical attractivity, sexual attractivity , weight scale and social physical anxiety).
Results of this study, based on direct, indirect and the whole independent variable’s effects show that body evaluation variable is mainly affected by weight scale and physical attractivity.
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