Investigating the role of gender in the relationship between narcissism and perception of athletes in Sanandaj ,TooranAlipoor MSc of Nursing

Abstract

One of the symptoms of the health of the soul is to know ourselves as
we are and since the body's overall form is part of the composition of
your physique, society’s too much attention to athletes might cause the
emergence of the sense of narcissism in them. Based on this probability,
the present descriptive and field-based study investigates the relationship
between narcissism and physical perception of athletes based on gender
differences. The statistical population of the research includes all athletes
active in sports clubs (gymnastics and aerobics) in Sanandaj, of which
294 volunteers were selected as the sample. The findings of the study
indicated that there is a significant relationship between narcissism and
physical perception in male and female athletes. For female athletes, their
self-esteem was correlated with a correlation coefficient of 0.683 and for
male athletes with a correlation coefficient of 0.734. In general, it can be
deduced that extreme dissatisfaction with appearance may conceal
mental illness, and disregarding it may have serious medical
consequences.