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Body Satisfaction and Management in Iranian Students

PURPOSE: Despite the importance of body satisfaction on self concept and well being, there is little study about it or its consequences in Iranian populations, a part of Asian culture. The aim of this study was the assessment of body satisfaction and body management strategies in Iranian university...

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Autores principales: Garousi, Saeide, Garrusi, Behshid, Divsalar, Fatemeh, Divsalar, Kouros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3732341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922514
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.34-37
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author Garousi, Saeide
Garrusi, Behshid
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description PURPOSE: Despite the importance of body satisfaction on self concept and well being, there is little study about it or its consequences in Iranian populations, a part of Asian culture. The aim of this study was the assessment of body satisfaction and body management strategies in Iranian university students. WORK METHOD: This survey was performed based on a self-administrated questionnaire in 535 university and post graduate students. WORK RESULTS: About 2/3rd of the students had moderate to severe body dissatisfaction and 40% of the students were using body management methods. Rhinoplasty and heavy exercise were the most frequent body management methods in women and men, respectively. CONCLUSION: Widespread research on body satisfaction prevalence and its management behaviors in the general population can be effective in reducing the negative health, social and economic consequences of harmful behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-37323412013-08-06 Body Satisfaction and Management in Iranian Students Garousi, Saeide Garrusi, Behshid Divsalar, Fatemeh Divsalar, Kouros Mater Sociomed Article PURPOSE: Despite the importance of body satisfaction on self concept and well being, there is little study about it or its consequences in Iranian populations, a part of Asian culture. The aim of this study was the assessment of body satisfaction and body management strategies in Iranian university students. WORK METHOD: This survey was performed based on a self-administrated questionnaire in 535 university and post graduate students. WORK RESULTS: About 2/3rd of the students had moderate to severe body dissatisfaction and 40% of the students were using body management methods. Rhinoplasty and heavy exercise were the most frequent body management methods in women and men, respectively. CONCLUSION: Widespread research on body satisfaction prevalence and its management behaviors in the general population can be effective in reducing the negative health, social and economic consequences of harmful behaviors. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3732341/ /pubmed/23922514 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.34-37 Text en © 2012 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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