The investigation of the relationship between body dysmorphic disorder and psychological problems and comprise it among female athletes and non athletes students

Abstract The aim of the present study was to compare the body dysmorphic disorder and investigate the relationship between the sub-scale of the psychological problems and body dysmorphic disorder of the athletes and nonathletes university girl students. The subjects of the research comprise 60 individuals whose ages are between 19- 25. The instruments used to collect data for the dependant variable included a personal information, BICI and SCL90 questionnaires. The results showed that the body dysmorphic disorder of the athletes are better than nonathletes and the relationship between body dysmorphic disorder and all of sub-scales of psychological problems in nonathletes is higher than athletes.