The evaluation of eating disorders and its relation with emotional intelligence (Case study: the undergraduate female students of Tabriz University)

Abbaszadeh, Mohammad; Alizadeh Aghdam, Mohammad Bagher; Mokhtari, Marziyeh

doi:10.22059/jwdp.2013.36092

The evaluation of eating disorders and its relation with emotional intelligence (Case study: the undergraduate female students of Tabriz University)

Document Type : Practical article

Authors

Mohammad Abbaszadeh ¹

Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam ¹

Marziyeh Mokhtari ²

¹ Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Law and Social Sciences Faculty, The University of Tabriz

² MA in Sociology, Law and Social Sciences Faculty, The University of Tabriz

10.22059/jwdp.2013.36092

Abstract

Having the highest mortality rate among mental illness, eating disorders is one of major
concerns of World Health Organization nowadays. So, the study with aiming to specify the
relationship between eating disorders and emotional intelligence being known as a sociopsychological
variable is trying to explain the levels of eating disorders among the female
students. The method of this research was survey and the measurement tools were closed
questioners. The population of the study was all undergraduate female students of Tabriz
University in 92-93 (4514 students) which 367 of them were selected through stratified
random sampling by Cochran formula. The data were analyzed by spss software. The results
show that emotional intelligence and its dimensions have a negative and significant
correlation with eating disorders and its dimensions, somehow; as the self-awareness, selfcontrolling,
social consciousness, social skills and finally emotional intelligence of
respondents increase; correspondingly, eating disorders will decrease and vice versa. Based
on regression analyzes among the studied variables social consciousness variable with Beta= -
1.24 is a significant factor in predicting eating disorders.

Keywords

eating disorders

Emotional intelligence

mental anorexia

mental bulimia

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