Predicting social physique anxiety Disorder based on the self-Compassion and Self-Esteem in Female Athletes

Many factors may cause fear and social anxiety that people's concern about their body can be one of these sources. The aim of the current study was to predict the social physique anxiety disorder based on the self-compassion and self-esteem in female athletes.

The type of the study is a cross-sectional correlational study that was conducted as a survey. The statistical population of the study included all female athletes in the fields of TRX and Spinning in Mashhad in 2020. Among them, 100 people were selected by purposive sampling. The research instruments included the scales of the social physique anxiety, self-compassion and Rosenberg Self-esteem. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics including dispersion and central indices (mean, standard deviation), and Pearson correlation test and stepwise regression analysis were used by SPSS software version 19.

The results showed that there is a significant relationship between self-confidence and self-compassion with social anxiety of the body. Also, among the dependent variables, only the extreme cloning variable explains 40% of the variance changes in the body's social anxiety.

The findings of the present study have practical implications in the clinical field in the field of the social physique anxiety in female athletes.