Comparison of Social Anxiety, Positive and Negative Perfectionism, and Quality of Life between Girls with Body Dissatisfaction and Normal Girls

The purpose of this study was to compare social anxiety, positive and negative perfectionism, and quality of life between girls with body dissatisfaction and those without. This research followed a causal-comparative design. The statistical population included all girls aged 17 - 35 years who visited beauty clinics in District 6 of Tehran, as well as girls from the general population in the same district. A convenience sampling method was employed, resulting in a total sample of 120 participants (60 girls with body dissatisfaction and 60 without). Participants completed the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (Hart et al., 1989), the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale (Terry-Short et al., 1995), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (1996). Given the assumptions of parametric tests, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used for data analysis. The results were as follows: social anxiety (F = 2.9, p = 0.9), positive perfectionism (F = 14.9, p = 0.022), negative perfectionism (F = 4.8, p = 0.03), and quality of life (F = 11.7, p = 0.01).The findings revealed significant differences between the two groups in terms of positive perfectionism, negative perfectionism, and quality of life, with p-values below the 0.05 threshold. However, no significant difference was observed in social anxiety scores.