An investigation of relationships between body compassion, social physique anxiety and physical appearance perfectionism in young people from Iran

Journal of Eating Disorders

Research

Edwin Gustavo Estrada-Araoz¹  Sarah Jawad Shoja²  Abbas Abdollahi³  Nasser Said Gomaa Abdelrasheed⁴  Yasser Fakri Mustafa⁵  Ghaidaa Raheem Lateef Al-Awsi⁶  Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel⁷  Nermeen Singer⁸  Shadia Hamoud Alshahrani⁹  A. Heri Iswanto^1,10  K. D. V. Prasad^1,11 

[1] Academic Department of Education and Humanities, Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, Peru;College of Health and Medical Technology, Al-Ayen University, Nasiriyah, Iraq;Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Education, Dhofar University, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman;Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Mosul, 41001, Mosul, Iraq;Department of Radiological Techniques, Al-Mustaqbal University College, 51001, Hillah, Babylon, Iraq;Laboratory of Psychometrics, Comparative Psychology and Ethology (LABPPCE), Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador;Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia;Media and Children’s Culture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Medical Surgical Nursing Department, King Khalid University, Khamis Mushate, Saudi Arabia;Public Health Department, University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia;Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Hyderabad, India;Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India;

关键词: Physical appearance perfectionism;    Social physique anxiety;    Body compassion;    Undergraduates;    Moderator;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40337-023-00807-x

 received in 2023-03-14, accepted in 2023-05-12,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that physical appearance perfectionism could play an important role in social physique anxiety; however, the moderating role of body compassion has not been studied. The current study aims to explore the moderating role of body compassion in the relationship between physical appearance perfectionism and social physique anxiety in undergraduate students.MethodsA sample of 418 undergraduates (n = 418; 217 female and 201 males) from three universities in Tehran, Iran completed online questionnaires measuring physical appearance perfectionism, body compassion and social physique anxiety.ResultsThe results of structural equation modeling showed that physical appearance perfectionism (β = 0.68, p < 0.001) positively predicted the social physique anxiety and body compassion negatively predicted (β = − .56, p < 0.001) the social physique anxiety in undergraduate students. A multi-group analysis showed that body compassion acted as a moderator between physical appearance perfectionism and social physique anxiety.ConclusionsThe results suggested that individuals with greater levels of physical appearance perfectionism are more likely to experience social physique anxiety. Also, the results suggested that individuals who were at a high level of the body-compassion group experienced lower levels of social physical anxiety if they also had high levels of physical appearance perfectionism. Therefore, body-compassion acted as a protective role in the relationship between physical appearance perfectionism and social physique anxiety.

【 授权许可】

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