Abstract:
The current study used a correlational research design to investigate a relationship between body
shaming, social appearance anxiety and mental health in young adults. It was hypothesized that
there would be an association between body shaming, social appearance anxiety and mental
health in young adults. The 400 undergraduates (N=400) in the sample ranged in age from 19 to
25 years (M= 21.54 SD= 2.58) old of them, including males (n=200) and Females (n=200). A
convenient sampling approach was employed to gather data from several government and private
universities. The approach to participation and data collection employed a convenient sampling.
The degree of body shaming, social appearance anxiety, and mental health were assessed using
the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS: Hart, Wearing, & Newlove, 1999), Body
Objectified Consciousness Scale (OBCS: Mckinley & Hyde‚ 1996), and Depression Anxiety
Stress Scale (DASS: Lovibond, 1995). It were revealed that body shaming had positive
correlated with social appearance anxiety and mental health. Moreover body shaming and social
appearance anxiety are likely to predict mental health.
