The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples, is often explained in terms of a moderate dress style of highly religious women. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the relationship between body image, religiosity, and dress style among female Muslims who live in Muslim-majority countries. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory questionnaire study among 59 female Muslims between 17 and 46 years ( n = 29 veiled, n = 30 non-veiled) in Turkey, measuring social appearance anxiety and religiosity (intrinsic, extrinsic, normative, popular religiosity). The results show that veiled women score much lower on social appearance anxiety than non-veiled women. All four forms of religiosity are highly negatively correlated with social appearance anxiety for the whole sample and the veiled subsample. The results are discussed in the context of wearing the hijab and normative religiosity as important buffering factors against a negative body image among Turkish-Muslim women.

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戴面纱和不戴面纱的土耳其女性的身体意象和宗教信仰

正如在基督教样本中发现的那样，身体形象和宗教信仰之间的正相关关系通常可以用高度虔诚的女性的适度着装风格来解释。不幸的是，几乎没有人知道生活在穆斯林占多数的国家的女性穆斯林的身体形象、宗教信仰和着装风格之间的关系。因此，我们在土耳其对 59 名年龄在 17 至 46 岁之间的女性穆斯林（n = 29 戴面纱，n = 30 不戴面纱）进行了一项探索性问卷研究，测量社交外表焦虑和宗教信仰（内在、外在、规范、流行的宗教信仰）。结果表明，戴面纱的女性在社交形象焦虑方面的得分远低于不戴面纱的女性。所有四种形式的宗教信仰都与整个样本和隐蔽的子样本的社会外表焦虑高度负相关。