| With the opening of China and better quality of peoples life,attention to beauty is increasing, which pushes the beauty industry’sbooming. It is more practicable and convenient to improve one’sappearance or correct deformity by plastic surgery. However, peoplewho pursue beautiful appearance usually have complicated motiveand mental state. Some people who had plastic surgery even severaltimes still can not satisfy themselves mentally while others have boththeir appearance improved and inferiority eliminated. And personalitydefinitely influences behavior of pursuing beauty and plastic surgery aswell as thought and emotion. Body-image recognition and formationmust be affected by all kinds of factors of environment includingpersonality. Exploring the mental status of people who appeal ofcosmetic surgery and relations of personality and body-image will bebeneficial for cosmetic surgeons to provide the service with meetingthose people’s needs mentally. The study aims for it.The study made “General Self-Rated of Body-imageQuestionnaire” and explored the difference in personality andbody-image in three groups(control group—people who never hadcosmetic surgery; group1—people who did not have but plan to havecosmetic surgery; group2—people who had cosmetic surgery).Three steps are conducted:First, design the questionnaire of body-image including nine dimensions such as body-image self-esteem, others recognition,body-image concern, etc.Secondly make a questionnaire survey. The tool is “SixteenPersonality Factors Questionnaire” and the self-designed questionnaire.Finally a depth interview is followed, focusing on the relationshipbetween personality and body-image.The main conclusions of the survey study are：1. The three groups have differences in personality:For example, control group is more extrovert than group1; Group1is more anxious and worse in mental health; Control group is morecapable of adapting environment than group1and group2; Group1and group2have no significant difference in personality; etc.2. The three groups have differences in five factors of theself-designed questionnaire (i.e. Body-Image self-esteem, othersrecognition, body-image concern, body-image emotion, surgeryinclination).For example, group1has lower body-image satisfaction thancontrol groupand group2; Group1and2are more bothered by body-imagethan control group; Group1and2have more inclination to cosmeticsurgery than control group, etc.3. There is correlation between personality and factors of theself-designed questionnaire in three groups.For example, the more mental healthy the subjects are, the higherthey are satisfied with their body-image and the less they are botheredby body-image; The less emotional stability, the lower body-imagesatisfaction and the more worried about body-image; The morecapable of adapting environment, the less body-image concern, theless body-image bother, and the less inclination to cosmetic surgery. 4. There is correlation among factors of the self-desi g nedquestionnaire.For example, the higher body-image satisfaction, the more othersrecogniti on, the more body-i mage concern and the less body-i magebother, etc.5. Whether subjects had cosmeti c sur gery or not is r elated with boththei r copi ng behavi or caused by body-image worries and parentalrearing pattern.Control group copees with the body-image worries by gainingmore knowledge and skills as the other two groups prefer dressingthemselves up beautifully; Democratic type of parental rearing patternis main in control group, strict type in group1and strict type andlaisser-faire type are in group2.The interview study found that confident and optimistic personalitycan help people coping with body-image recgnition from other peopleand peer influence can not be belittled.The research shows the differences of three groups in personalityand correlations in factors of body-image, which has significantmeaning theoretically and practically to beauty industry. |
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