Soodabeh Yavari - Department of Counseling Psychology Islamic Azad University Abahar Branch, Abhar, Iran

Recently, every year tens of thousands are doing cosmetic surgery in order to eliminate dissatisfaction with their appearance and sometimes to increase self-esteem. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and psychological needs with the perception of body image in cosmetic (plastic) surgery applicants. Research population consists of all the men and women who were applicants for cosmetic surgery and had recourse to beauty clinic of Imam Khomeini hospital, Tehran, Iran. 200 individual samples were selected by availability sampling method. Data was collected with questionnaire method and also was analyzed using SPSS. Results showed that there was a relationship between perfectionism and psychological needs with the perception of body image of cosmetic surgery applicants. Psychological and perfectionism needs and also the perception of body image of women is different from men. In addition, the negative characteristics of perfectionism have a larger share in cosmetic surgery applicants’ prediction of body image perception.

psychological needs, perfectionism, perception of body image