The relationship between self-objectification with resilience and self-compassion of female students (Case Study: Islamic Azad university of Sabzevar)

Today, self-objectification is define by evaluating the others based on physical appearance, beauty and sexual attractiveness, It’s a major source of women suffering especially female students and reduce resilience and self-compassion and mental health of them is endangered. The aim of this study is investigating the relationship between self-objectification with resilience and self-compassion of female students of Islamic Azad university of Sabzevar. The present research was descriptive and correlative. The population of this study included all female students of Islamic Azad University of Sabzevar incoming in 2014 that were totally 647 individuals. Using accessible sampling method and with help of Cochran’s formula for sample size, 242 of persons were selected through Stratified random sampling method. The data was collected using McKinley& Hyde self-objectification scale, Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Neff self -compassion Scale. Pearson correlation and stepwise regression were used for analyzing data with SPSS18. The results showed that there were significant and negative correlation between self-objectification with resilience and self-compassion. In addition, it was found that component of self-objectification (body shame, body surveillance, appearance control) could respectively explain 31 Percent of variance of resilience and 18 Percent of self-compassion among students. Therefore, decreasing self-objectification can increase resilience and self-compassion among female students.