Investigating the effectiveness of self-review cognitive method on body images of the female students of university of Tehran

Indeed, body image is one's self-concept about the body and physical appearance or is physical self-concept. Self-concept is an individual’s perception of self, including self-esteem, body image, and ideal self. Pourhosein (2010) believes that referring people to the self, informing them about themselves and restructuring their cognitive, increase the level of self-awareness and self-concept in them, and increasing the level of self-concept can have a motivational and therapeutic effect. Hence, present research investigating the effectiveness of self-review cognitive method on body Images of the female students of University of Tehran. Research method of this study is experimental and the type is pretest-posttest control group. The Multidimensional Body Self-Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ-AS) were used to measuring the dependent variable. In order to the implementation of research design, based on achieving the lowest scores on MBSRQ AS in pretest, were randomly assigned 22 subjects in the experimental group and 22 subjects in control group. 8-session individually intervention was presented for the experimental group. For statistical analysis, the repeated measurements analysis of variance was used, and for more investigating, contrasts options in the repeated measures were used. The findings suggest that the Body image’s evaluation dimension of experimental group were significantly increased, but there was no significant change in body image investment dimension’s scores. The results of this research can be used in clinical situations and in the treatment and preventing of body image problems.