Open AccessBody dissatisfaction and its relation to Big Five personality factors and self-esteem in young adult college women in India
Author(s) -
Geeta Soohinda,
Divyanti Mishra,
Harshavardhan Sampath,
Sanjiba Dutta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_367_18
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , neuroticism , big five personality traits , personality , psychology , body mass index , clinical psychology , self esteem , context (archaeology) , perfectionism (psychology) , population , eating disorders , demography , medicine , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , paleontology , pathology , sociology , biology
Eating disorders are increasingly becoming common among men and women across the world. Body dissatisfaction is found to be one of the prominent risk factors for the development and maintenance of eating disorders. Research suggests that the internalization of culturally unattainable ideals is in fact mediated by self-esteem and personality factors such as high neuroticism, perfectionism, and impulsiveness. Studies on body image concerns in the cultural context of the Indian population are limited. We aimed to study the prevalence of body image dissatisfaction and its association with self-esteem and personality traits among young Indian women.