Author(s)

Atefeh Mortezagholi¹, Amir Maghsoudi², Donya Khorshidvand³, Hossein Khavari⁴, Setayesh Shokri⁵, Atousa Mostafa⁶, Pooya Mohammadian⁷, Sanaz Saber⁸, Rezvan Yousef Zamanian⁹, Diana Nasri¹⁰, Nasratullah Hajizada¹¹, Sahel Cheraghi¹², Matineh Ravanji¹³, Fatemeh Ghaffari¹⁴, Mahdi Mohammadi¹⁵, Faezeh Seyedi^16*

¹Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
²Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch, Rudehen, Iran.
³School of Psychology, West Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
⁴Shahid Mofateh Public Boys’ Technical High School, Absard, Iran.
⁵Narges High School, Second Year of High School-Science, Damavand, Iran.
⁶School of Computer Software, Islamic Azad University of Pardis, Pardis, Iran.
⁷School of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Damavand Branch, Damavand, Iran.
⁸Department of Business Management, Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
⁹Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Farhangian University, Sherafat Branch, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁰School of Computer, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch, Rudehen, Iran.
¹¹Tajrobawe High School, Parwan, Afghanistan.
¹²School of English Language Translation, Islamic Azad University of Damavand Branch, Damavand, Iran.
¹³Dr. Shariati Technical and Vocational College, National University of Skills, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁴School of Science in Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amolie Branch, Amol, Iran.
¹⁵Empirical Science, Imam Khomeini State Model Boys’ High School, Damavand, Iran.
¹⁶School of Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

The purpose of this study was to compare social anxiety, positive and negative perfectionism, and quality of life between girls with body dissatisfaction and those without. This research followed a causal-comparative design. The statistical population included all girls aged 17 - 35 years who visited beauty clinics in District 6 of Tehran, as well as girls from the general population in the same district. A convenience sampling method was employed, resulting in a total sample of 120 participants (60 girls with body dissatisfaction and 60 without). Participants completed the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (Hart et al., 1989), the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale (Terry-Short et al., 1995), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (1996). Given the assumptions of parametric tests, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used for data analysis. The results were as follows: social anxiety (F = 2.9, p = 0.9), positive perfectionism (F = 14.9, p = 0.022), negative perfectionism (F = 4.8, p = 0.03), and quality of life (F = 11.7, p = 0.01).The findings revealed significant differences between the two groups in terms of positive perfectionism, negative perfectionism, and quality of life, with p-values below the 0.05 threshold. However, no significant difference was observed in social anxiety scores.

Body Dissatisfaction, Social Anxiety, Perfectionism, Quality of Life, Causal-Comparative Study

Mortezagholi, A. , Maghsoudi, A. , Khorshidvand, D. , Khavari, H. , Shokri, S. , Mostafa, A. , Mohammadian, P. , Saber, S. , Zamanian, R. , Nasri, D. , Hajizada, N. , Cheraghi, S. , Ravanji, M. , Ghaffari, F. , Mohammadi, M. and Seyedi, F. (2025) Comparison of Social Anxiety, Positive and Negative Perfectionism, and Quality of Life between Girls with Body Dissatisfaction and Normal Girls. Sociology Mind, 15, 484-502. doi: 10.4236/sm.2025.155020.