فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: A favorable or unfavorable attitude about self was named self esteem. Accordingto Maslow theory to achieve quality of life and happiness, one must reach the gradualfulfillment of human needs, including a high degree of own self‑esteem. Body dissatisfactionis a negative distortion of one’s body which is especially mentioned by the women. Manystudies have shown links between self esteem, body dissatisfaction, health and behaviors. thisstudy intends to determine relationship between body satisfaction, self esteem and unhealthyweight control behaviors between women. Methods: This cross‑sectional study was doneon 408 women employees in Isfahan University and Isfahan University of Medical Sciencesduring 1390. They were chosen according to the stratified random sampling method. Inclusioncriteria were 1) willing to participate in the study and 2) lack of serious physical defect 3) notbeing in pregnancy or breastfeeding course. Exclusion criteria was filling out questionnairesincompletely. Data collection tool was a multidimensional questionnaire which comprised of4 sections as following: demographic (5items), A self‑administrative questionnaire for bodySatisfaction (7 items), Rosenberg Self‑Esteem Scale (10 items) and a standard Weight ControlBehavior Scale (18 items). Cranach’s alpha was 0.9 or higher for the different sections. Finally,collected data was analyzed with SPSS18 using the independent T‑test, one‑way ANOVA,Pearson correlation coefficient, regression, Spearman correlation. Results: Frequencies ofparticipants by weight category were 14.1% for obese, 35.3% for overweight, 47.6% for normalweight. The mean body satisfaction score in the studied women was 63.26 ± 16.27 (from100). Mean score of self esteem was 76.70  ± 10.45. 51.5% of women had medium selfesteem, 47.5% had high self esteem. Pearson correlation showed that the variables of bodySatisfaction (r = 0.3, P = 0.02), BMI (r = ‑ 0.14, P < 0.003), education level (r = 0.22, P < 0.001),income (r = 0.14, P < 0.004), consumption of fruit (r = 0.13, P < 0.008) all correlated withself‑esteem significantly. Women with higher self esteem used higher fruits had a goodnutrition overall (r = 0.11, P = 0.02). 92.15%, 10.8% of women respectively participated in oneof healthy and unhealthy weight control behavior. There was not any Relationship betweenself esteem and healthy weight control behavior while finding showed reverse relationshipbetween self esteem and Unhealthy Dieting Behaviors.Conclusion: It seemed women identity in our society tiedto social appreciations that formed and supported by bodysatisfaction. When they feel their current appearance isdiffer from ideal appearance, they feel down and have lowerself esteem and used unhealthy dieting behavior and lowfruits daily. Due to importance of precise self evaluation,self esteem can be used to design and conduct publichealth programs, especially for women.