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Background: It is important to determine the social appearance concerns and healthy lifestyle behaviors of women according to different life periods. Objective: It was conducted to evaluate the sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of women in different life stages and to determine the relationship between social appearance anxiety and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Methods: The study is of descriptive and relation-seeking type. The sample of the study consisted of 404 women from different life stages. Data were collected using a personal information form, Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SSAS) and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale-II (SYB-II). Data were evaluated with descriptive statistics as well as Kruskal Wallis test, One Way Anova test, Mann Whitney U test and correlation analysis. Results: It was determined that women’s social appearance concerns and healthy lifestyle behaviors did not differ significantly according to their life periods (p>.05). Between the variables of marital status, age, income level, number of pregnancies and SSI median scores of women; It was determined that there was a significant difference between income level and SYBDÖ-II. A negative significant correlation was found between the total mean scores of women’s SSAS and SY-II. (r=- .247; p<.001). Conclusion: It was found that as the healthy lifestyle behaviors of women increased for all life periods, their social appearance anxiety decreased. It is very important to provide counseling services by nurses and midwives, taking into account the life period of women with social appearance anxiety.

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