en پژوهشي Research <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">Introduction: This study aimed at examining body image and eating attitude with regard to reasons of exercising among non-athlete women attending sport centers. Materials and methods: The present study has an ex-post facto design. 315 female sports center users were selected by multi-phase random clustering and completed the following rating scales: Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26), Body Image Concern Inventory (BICI) and a set of questions regarding their reasons to exercise. Results: Pierson correlation showed a significant positive correlation between body image concept and eating attitudes (r = 0.36, p < 0.001). Independent T-test showed that there were significant differences between reasons of exercising and eating attitude (p < 0.006), and also reasons of exercising and body image concept (p < 0.029). Conclusion: Women with higher scores of eating attitude or body image favored exercise more due to shape reasons than health reasons.</p> Eating attitudes, body image concept, exercise reasons, shape reasons, health reasons 1 7 http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-36-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Vahid Ahmadi 10031947532846001774 10031947532846001774 No Prevention of Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Nilofar Khajehdin 10031947532846001775 10031947532846001775 No Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Ali Asghar Firoozi 10031947532846001776 10031947532846001776 No Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Education, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Sareh Mirshekar 10031947532846001777 10031947532846001777 No Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Education, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Walieh Menati waliehmenati20@yahoo.com 10031947532846001778 10031947532846001778 Yes Prevention of Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Majid Eydi Baygi 10031947532846001779 10031947532846001779 No Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Education, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Ali Seiedi 10031947532846001780 10031947532846001780 No Gilan-e-Gharb Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gilan-e-Gharb, Iran