Abstract
The present study aimed to examine the relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and body image in boy and girl high school students. The sample consisted of 200 students of Zahedan city that were selected through cluster sampling method. To collect data, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and Fisher’s Body Image Inventory were applied. Obtained data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression analysis and independent t-test. The results illustrated a significant relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and body image. Results of stepwise regression analysis demonstrated that the variable of obsessive thoughts was a negative predictor of body image’s overall score and the variable of compulsive was a positive predicator of overall score of body image. Results demonstrated that girl students obtained significantly higher mean scores on compulsion symptoms and total scores of OCD in comparison to boy students. But there were no significant differences with regard to students’ gender on the scores of body image and obsession symptoms.
Highlights
Adolescence is the stage of dramatic and accelerating changes in the way that in a short time the yesterday’sHow to cite this paper: Tamini, B
According to the theoretical and experimental research studies mentioned, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between OCD symptoms and body image in boy and girl high school students of Zahedan city
Permission letters were obtained from the department of psychology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan to Education and Training Organization for distributing the scales among the boy and girl high school students, and scales were given to the students with adequate instructions on how to respond to the questions
Summary
Adolescence is the stage of dramatic and accelerating changes in the way that in a short time the yesterday’s. How to cite this paper: Tamini, B. The Relationship between Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Body Image in Boy and Girl High School Students. The contemporary world that is accompanied with progress and development which have been created in the context of rationalization has focused its attention more on the issues of human personality, issues that perhaps were considered trivial and unimportant about one-hundred years ago. Among the issues of human personality that has been less discussed is body image (Pasha, Naderi, & Akbari, 2008)
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