BODY IMAGE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SHYNESS AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASRA FOR OIL AND GAS
BODY IMAGE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SHYNESS AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASRA FOR OIL AND GAS

Summary/Abstract: The study aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between body image and shyness among a sample of university students. As well as identifying the level of shyness among university students and identifying the statistically significant relationship between body image and shyness among university students. The study sample consisted of (60) students from the University of Basra, the College of Education for Human Sciences and the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the analytical descriptive approach, and the researcher adopted the questionnaire as a basic tool for collecting information, as it adopted the first measurement tools to measure body image, consisting of (29) items. The second is to measure shyness, consisting of (26) items. The study tools were applied to a survey sample of (15) female students from the study community. The tools were distributed after verifying their validity, stability, and good psychometric properties, on a random sample of (60) female students. The researcher used multiple statistical methods to analyze the sample's response As for the results of the study The body image is not fixed, but rather changing according to life events, and it differs in conditions of illness from health and in different stages of life, and depending on the economic and social status.

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