Abstract
The study aimed at examining the relationship between body image satisfaction and bulimia nervosa among the students of education faculty at king said university students. The author used the tests of bulimia nervosa and body image test. The researcher verified tests reliability. Students from King Saud University randomly selected (No. 337) participated in the study. Overall mean of the body image satisfaction test scored 3.66 degrees, and the overall mean of the bulimia nervosa test scored 3.42 degrees. Data analysis indicated that there is a positive correlation between the body image satisfaction and bulimia nervosa, Pearson correlation coefficient scored 0.648, and bulimia nervosa predicted body image.
Highlights
The way we look to our body occupied our minds, and reflected clearly on our psychological state, self-satisfaction, and sociopsychological adjustment
The study attempted to investigate the correlation between body image satisfaction and bulimia nervosa by answering the following questions: 1) What is the level of body self-image satisfaction among the students of the education faculty at King Saud University?
Eating Disorders, is the extreme attitudes and behaviors concerned with eating and weight, it comes in two types: bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa and it reflects psychological and physiological problems that may have dangerous and damaging effects on its patients (Al-Zaghaleel, 2009)
Summary
The way we look to our body occupied our minds, and reflected clearly on our psychological state, self-satisfaction, and sociopsychological adjustment. The striking study of Koff, Rierdan, and Stubbs (1991) explored the correlation between body image and the self-concept among American 9th grad (male and female) students (No 169). The correlation between body image and self-concept differences attributed to gender were not functional, the correlation scores were higher among males compared to females. Females are less satisfied about their bodies and more interested in their figures compared with males They studied the correlation between body image and bulimia nervosa. Females participating in the study (No 638) showed a correlation between perceived body image satisfaction degree and self-appreciation. In a similar respect, Melhem (2012) investigated the effect of eating disorders, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder correlation with body image satisfaction among a group of adolescents from Jordan. Scarcity of studies on Arab environment motivated the author to conduct the current study
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