Abstract
<p>The present study aimed to examine the relationship of identity styles and body image with anxiety among<br />students. This was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population included 240 second period male<br />high school students in Saravan. To examine identity styles, body image and anxiety, respectively, Identity Style<br />Questionnaire (IS-6G), the Fisher Body Image Scale (1970), and the Cattell Anxiety Scale Questionnaire were<br />used as data collection tools. The obtained data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics<br />(Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis). The results of the current study revealed that identity<br />styles and body image were significantly and positively related to anxiety. Moreover, among identity styles,<br />informative and commitment styles had no significant relationships with anxiety; however, normative identity<br />style was significantly and negatively correlated with anxiety, such that with an increase in normative identity<br />style, anxiety decreased. Additionally, the results indicated that confused/avoidant identity style was significantly<br />and positively related to anxiety.</p>
Highlights
Adolescence is a stage full of physical and emotional changes and transformations regarded as one of the most significant periods of an individual’s life in which the individual experiences various difficulties in relation to his/her body image (Cason, Verna, and Benner, 2000; as cited in Amidi et al, 2006)
With the confidence level of 0.95, indicating that there is a significant relationship between identity style and anxiety among students
There is a significant relationship between body image and students’ anxiety
Summary
Adolescence is a stage full of physical and emotional changes and transformations regarded as one of the most significant periods of an individual’s life in which the individual experiences various difficulties in relation to his/her body image (Cason, Verna, and Benner, 2000; as cited in Amidi et al, 2006). When an individual feels that he/she cannot have a positive effect on the society, he/she may lose his/her confident to have a physical presence in the society These people probably experience high levels of social physical anxiety. Beker and Gringart (2009) suggested that when women, due to reduced satisfaction with their body image, have less continuous physical presence in the society, they usually experience high social physical anxiety, underestimate themselves and consider others more attractive than themselves in all circumstances. This can be the reason of the fact that why women always focus on immediate weight loss. They, use it as a method to reduce their social physical anxiety
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