AN ANALYTICAL SURVEY ON THE FEAR OF BODY IMAGE AND AGGRESSION IN GIRL AND BOY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Physical changes of puberty as a serious crisis in the teenagers can lead to body image disruptions and aggression disorders. Detection of relationship between these important factors can be necessary. Thus, the investigators tried to carried out an analytical survey on fear of body image and aggression in girls and boys in high school students of Abadan city.
This was a cross-sectional study that was performed by multistage cluster sampling on 357 girls and boys in high school students in their first to fourth level of study in Abadan city in 2016. The data were collected by demographic information form, Littleton fear of body image questionnaire, and Eysenck aggression questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using SPSS software by descriptive statistics, Independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
The results showed that fear of body image score was 39.4 and aggression score was 28.9 in the students. The findings also showed no significant relationship between fear of body image and aggression in girl and boy students.
In this study, there was no significant relationship between fear of body image and aggression in high school students, but applying appropriate approach for solving these problems is very important. In additional pathology, these factors should be detected more carefully, and these problems should be included in psychological health plan.