Self-image and relationship with eating disorder symptoms among adolescents in Soran district

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the level of self-image in its three dimensions (physical, psychological and social), and then to identify the level of eating disorder symptoms, while finding the relationship between the three dimensions of self-image with eating disorder symptoms among adolescents in the Soran District Center. The research population consists of all adolescents in the Soran District Center whose ages range between (16-18) years, and the research sample consists of (400) adolescents, (167) males and (233) females. The researchers relied on the quantitative approach with a questionnaire to obtain numbers and information. The researchers built a special scale to measure the self-image variable, and for the eating disorder symptoms variable, the researchers took a scale (EAT-26), after extracting the psychometric properties of both scales. To treat the data, the following statistical methods were used: (percentage, chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach alpha equation, one simple t-test and independent simple t-test). For this purpose, the researchers used the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and the Structural Equation Modeling-SEM, which is known as the (AMOS - Analysis of Moment Structures program). The results of the research concluded that participants have a positive image in the three dimensions of self-image (physical, psychological and social), and that the participants do not have eating disorder symptoms, and there is an inverse relationship between the three dimensions of positive self-image with eating disorder symptoms. According to the results, the researchers presented a set of recommendations and suggestions.