International Journal of Caring Sciences January-April 2014 Vol 7 Issue 1 www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org 83 . O R I G I N A L P A P E R .r . Body Satisfaction And Body Management Behaviors, In Iranian Female Students Saideh Garousi, PhD Associate Professor ,Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran Mahsa Zahedi Nejad, MS of Social Sciences Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health,Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Corespondence: Saideh Garousi, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University. P.O. Box:444, Kerman,Iran E-mail: saidehgarousi@gmail.com Abstract Introduction: Body dissatisfaction and related consequences such as unhealthy body change activities and eating disorders are known as serious health problems. Western culture emphasizes thinness as an Ideal Body . Efforts for achieving the deal Body could be affected by many contributing factors , especially socio-cultural factors. There is a little evidences from Iran, regarding wide spread health problem. Aim: to investigate the approaches that people prefer to follow to change their body shape. Methods: Four hundred female university students in Kerman participated in the study. Participants filled self administrated questionnaire regarding demographic variables , perceived pressure from others, Body Satisfaction and influences of body on social life. Results: About half of respondents used diet for weight reduction. About 1/3 of them selected heavy exercise as body management method. Only 6% of students used drugs.There was negative correlation between body satisfaction with Body management (P<0.001).Media had prominent effect on body satisfaction and body management methods, direct and indirect. Conclusion : With considering these results , Understanding body image and contributing factors is important to planning for harm reduction due to body dissatisfaction and consequences. Key words : Body satisfaction, perceived pressure from others, influences of body on social life .Iran Introduction Body image has been defined as “a person’s perception, feelings and thoughts about his or her body and evaluation of body attractiveness and emotions associated with body shape and size” (Grogan 2006). Introducing of special body to society as an Ideal body, could be result to increasing body dissatisfaction. This Ideal body that is advertised by media is thinness for women and masculinity for men (McCabe et al., 2007). Body concerns there are in all of ages. This could be begin in the early years of life (Park 2005). Park (2005) showed, about 40% of 6-years-old girls wanted to be thinner than current weight. But body concern and dissatisfaction is persisting in the later age stages (Park 2005). Nevertheless, great studies are shown that body dissatisfaction and weigh concerns are high prevalence in adolescents and young adults especially in females (Ricciardelli & McCabe 2004). Although the females have greater body dissatisfaction than