Neda  Kianipour, Shahram  Saeidi, Alireza  Zangeneh, Arash  Ziapour, 
    A Sociological Study of the Social Determinants of
Body Management among the Youth of Gilan-e
Gharb County, Kermanshah, Iran,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 11,Issue 26,
    2016,
    Pages 6248-6254,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2016.6248.6254,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6248.6254)
    Abstract: The present study aimed to sociologically investigate the social determinants of body management
among the youth of Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah, Iran. The statistical population of the present research
consisted of the youth of Gilan-e Gharb County aged between 15 and 29 of which a sample of 402 subjects
(148 males and 254 females) was selected through multistage sampling. For data collection, a demographic
information questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnaire for body management were utilized. Further,
to analyze the collected data, the Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression, t-test and Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA) were used with the help of SPSS 23 Software. The results of the present study demonstrated
that the mean of the total body management was 2.82 among both genders. In terms of body management,
nearly 3.2% of the respondents were in a good state, 72.9% in an average state and 23.9% in a bad state.
Additionally, the results revealed that among the socio-demographic variables; education, socioeconomic
status and body management were significantly related. Furthermore, the results of the multiple linear regression
showed that among the socio-demographic variables; education (α = 0.206) and socioeconomic status
(α = 0.098) had the strongest and weakest relationship with body management. In general, the proposed model
of the present study explained 5.2% of the changes of body management (the dependent variable).
    Keywords: Gilan-e Gharb county;social determinants;Body management;education;Iran