The evaluation of eating disorders and its relation with emotional intelligence (Case study: the undergraduate female students of Tabriz University)

Having the highest mortality rate among mental illness, eating disorders is one of major concerns of World Health Organization nowadays. So, the study with aiming to specify the relationship between eating disorders and emotional intelligence being known as a sociopsychological variable is trying to explain the levels of eating disorders among the female students. The method of this research was survey and the measurement tools were closed questioners. The population of the study was all undergraduate female students of Tabriz University in 92-93 (4514 students) which 367 of them were selected through stratified random sampling by Cochran formula. The data were analyzed by spss software. The results show that emotional intelligence and its dimensions have a negative and significant correlation with eating disorders and its dimensions, somehow; as the self-awareness, selfcontrolling, social consciousness, social skills and finally emotional intelligence of respondents increase; correspondingly, eating disorders will decrease and vice versa. Based on regression analyzes among the studied variables social consciousness variable with Beta= - 1.24 is a significant factor in predicting eating disorders.