Body Image and Its Rrelationship to Emotional Separation and Psychological Defeat For Married Women in Tthe City of Riyadh

Bin Yahya, Aisha Fahad Abdullah

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2023.289573

Body Image and Its Rrelationship to Emotional Separation and Psychological Defeat For Married Women in Tthe City of Riyadh

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Aisha Fahad Abdullah Bin Yahya

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

10.21608/jsrep.2023.289573

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The aim of the research is to identify the reality of body image and its relationship to emotional separation and psychological defeat among married women in Riyadh, and also to reveal the possibility of predicting satisfaction with body image through emotional separation and psychological defeat. Married women from the city of Riyadh applied measures of emotional separation, psychological defeat, and body image (prepared by the researcher). It was found that there is a strong negative inverse correlation between body image and psychological defeat. The study also found the possibility of predicting satisfaction with body image in the light of emotional separation and psychological defeat in married women.

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