the evaluation of eating disorders and its relation with emotional intelligence (case study: the undergraduate female students of tabriz university)

having the highest mortality rate among mental illness, eating disorders is one of majorconcerns of world health organization nowadays. so, the study with aiming to specify therelationship between eating disorders and emotional intelligence being known as a sociopsychologicalvariable is trying to explain the levels of eating disorders among the femalestudents. the method of this research was survey and the measurement tools were closedquestioners. the population of the study was all undergraduate female students of tabrizuniversity in 92-93 (4514 students) which 367 of them were selected through stratifiedrandom sampling by cochran formula. the data were analyzed by spss software. the resultsshow that emotional intelligence and its dimensions have a negative and significantcorrelation with eating disorders and its dimensions, somehow; as the self-awareness, selfcontrolling,social consciousness, social skills and finally emotional intelligence ofrespondents increase; correspondingly, eating disorders will decrease and vice versa. basedon regression analyzes among the studied variables social consciousness variable with beta= -1.24 is a significant factor in predicting eating disorders.