objectives: with considering the increasing prevalence of obesity and its effect on people’s body image, women’s higher vulnerability, and the unquestionable role of women’s health on the society and future generations’ health, the effects of having a negative body image on women’s eating habits and mental health, and the lack of a successful long-term treatment protocol, the aim of  present re...

abstract: this study was carried out to examine the image of god among students at ferdowsi university. methods: a sample of 455 students (randomly selected), answered image of god (lawrence, 1997), self concept rogers (1951) and general self-efficacy (military and associates, 1996). data was analyzed using pearson, spearman and eta coefficient and chi-square test. results: psychometric propert...

conclusions psychological status, self-esteem, economic level, and place of residence of nursing students may be the potential factors for eating disorders. results about 30.0% of turkish nursing students had negative eating attitudes. there was a significant positive correlation between the bds and eat scores (p < 0.001). there was a significant negative correlation between rses scores and eat...

objective: the interest in cosmetic surgery has increased dramatically during recent years and psychologists have focused on the associations of this interest. the present study aimed to compare cosmetic surgery patients and normal individuals in terms of their early maladaptive schemas (emss), body image (bi), and self-esteem, as well as investigate the relationships of emss and self-esteem wi...

There is a significant issue in society today regarding the lack of knowledge about and positive regard attributed to women’s bodies, but more specifically female genitalia. This is detrimental to women in that it causes us to see ourselves in a negative light, or to overly sexualize certain aspects of ourselves, which may lead to severe psychological damage (American Psychological Association ...

The case of a 28-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia is reported who presented with erotomania and who had injured her external genitals in an attempt to stop coenaesthetic dysaesthesias. The implications of the symptoms are discussed with reference to relevant literature (German J Psychiatry 2005:8:38-41).

The assessment of sexual arousal in men and women informs theoretical studies of human sexuality and provides a method to assess and evaluate the treatment of sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias. Understanding measures of arousal is, therefore, paramount to further theoretical and practical advances in the study of human sexuality. In this meta-analysis, we review research to quantify the exten...

BACKGROUND Many sexual psychophysiologic studies have failed to find differences in physiologic genital arousal between women with and those without sexual dysfunction. However, differences in self-reported (ie, perceived) measures of genital responses between these 2 groups of women have been noted. AIMS To determine whether women with and without sexual dysfunction differ on measures of phy...