Study of the Relationship Between Body Management and Erotic Capital Among Students (Case Study: Female Students of Non-Profit Private Higher Education Institutions in Mashhad(

Document Type : Research Article

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1 PhD in Sociology of Social Issues Iran. Secretary of Education and Lecturer of Lecturer at Farhangian University. Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant professor of Department of Psychology and Counselling, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

10.22084/csr.2025.29954.2310

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The purpose of this article is the effective relationship between body management and erotic capital, emphasizing the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and Catherine Hakim. The Quantitative approach based on survey method (descriptive-correlation), relying on a standardized questionnaire tool among female students of psychology and guidance counseling in non-profit higher education institutions of Mashhad city with a number of 253 people based on two-stage sampling, first cluster and then The findings were collected randomly. Cronbach's alpha of body management is equal to (0/878) and erotic capital is equal to (0/883) and the convergence validity of the dependent variable is equal to (0/629) and the independent variable is equal to (0/567). The findings have been analyzed using SPSS software. The descriptive results indicate that the average status of the variables along with their components was mostly medium to high. Among the dimensions of body management (attention to the upper, middle and lower limbs of the body) and among the dimensions of the dependent variable (vitality), they were more important. The average of contextual variables such as marital status, economic and social base, employment and age group did not have a significant difference with the main variables (independent and dependent) in the sense that the main variables had the same importance for all students. Based on the correlation results, it states that the Pearson correlation value (0/474) between the main variables was predictable, positive and significant.

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