Abstract

The present study aimed at predicting histrionic characteristics of female university ‎students based on explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem, social competence and ‎body image. To achieve this goal, 100 students were selected by multistage cluster ‎sampling. Then Rosenberg Self-esteem Questionnaire, Fisher Body Image ‎Questionnaire, Felner et al. (1990) Social Competence Questionnaire, and Ferguson ‎and Nagy (2014) Histrionic Personality Scale were given to them, and then ‎computerized implicit-association test (IAT) of self-esteem was done. The obtained ‎data were analyzed by two-variables and multivariate correlation and regression. The ‎results showed that there was no significant relationship between social competence ‎and histrionic characteristics. However, explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem, and ‎body image could predict histrionic characteristics‎‎‎‎.