Investigating the Rate of Social Physique Anxiety and its Related Social Factors: A Case Study of Undergraduate Female Students of Tabriz University (Academic Year of 1391-1392)

The current culture trains the individuals particularly the women that their value depends on their appearance. Some people feel social physiqueanxiety knowing that they do not enjoy a pleasing appearance. The role of the mass media that present unreachable beauty criteria and social networking sites that reinforce such criteria cannot be denied. The present study attempts to assess the rate of social physiqueanxiety of girls with the aim of determining the relation between this type of anxiety and the mass media and peers. The statistical population consists of all 4514 female undergraduates of Tabriz University in the academic year of 1391-92. The sample size was calculated as 376 people with the aid of Kukran Formula. Survey method and questionnaires were used for data collection, and the data was then analyzed by SPSS-20 software. The results show that the independent variables determine 10% of social physiqueanxiety variable. The peer variable (Beta=0/274) determined the highest variance value of social physique anxiety.