Explaining Self-Acceptance based on Body Image, Gender Role with mediation of Time Perspective among Menopausal Women

 In this research, which conducted in 2020, the aim was to explain the Self-Acceptance based on Body Image, Gender Role with mediating of Time Perspective among  Post-Menopausal Women aged 45-60 in Tehran. The sample group was consisted of 710 available Post-Menopausal women.

The research method was correlation with the structural equation model approach. The statistical population of the study was postmenopausal women aged 60-45 years old in Tehran in 2020. The sample group participated in this study by available sampling method of 355 women and with their unconditional acceptance questionnaires by Chamberlain and Haga (2001). , Multidimensional self-bodybuilder and Mikolka (1990), Bam gender role (1974) and the time perspective of Zimbardo and Boyd (1999) were evaluated. Spss and Lisrel software were used to analyze the data.

According to the results of the model, self-acceptance in postmenopausal women based on body image, gender role mediated by time perspective, had a good fit. The results of path analysis showed that the direct effect of time perspective on self-acceptance is significant (t = 2.69, β = 0.43) and body image (t = 2.57, β = 0.39) and gender role ( T = 2.57, β = 0.26) indirectly affects its acceptance due to time perspective. The results also showed that the variables within the model predict 23% of their acceptance variance and 46% of the time vision variance.

Comparing with the Gender role, the Body image is a better predicted-able for Unconditional Acceptance in postmenopausal women,  with mediating Time Prospective, through the factors “past positive”, futuristic, and “Present Hedonistic.”