Reasons for undergoing cosmetic surgery: a retrospective study

Thorpe, S. J.; Ahmed, Bipasha; Steer, Keith

doi:10.1080/14616660412331303857

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“…In contrast to this study; others studies mentioned that securing a partner or getting job are main causes to underwent cosmetic surgery. [19] Table 2 shows the attitude of students about plastic surgery. There is no differentiation between cosmetic and plastic surgery as a whole.…”

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Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Plastic Surgery among Females Students at Faculty of Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

Hammadi¹,

El-shereef²

2017

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Background: This study investigates the knowledge, attitudes and practices of cosmetic surgery among faculty of education female students at Taif University (KSA). Methods: An observational cross-sectional study design was used to carry out the study at College of Education, Taif University. A self-administered questionnaire was first developed to collect the data necessary to fulfill the objectives of the research. The population under study included a random sample in which the questionnaire was distributed to female educational students at Taif University. The sample size was estimated by using a single proportion formula with an acceptable margin of error at 5%. The sample size obtained was 234. Those who completed the questionnaires were 220 students. Results: The mean age of the participants was 19.919±0.834. Out of 234 Taif female educational students in our study, the majority of participants (220, 94.0%) have heard about cosmetic surgery and completed the questionnaire. Mass Media was the source of knowledge for (79.1%) of participants who had already heard about cosmetic surgery. Only one-fourth of students (25.0%) of surveyed female educational students recognized the best definition of plastic surgery as a "surgery to restore function or normal appearance and (51.8%) recognized the best definition of cosmetic surgery as "a surgery that modifies or improves the appearance of a physical feature electively". Abdomioplasty and rhinoplasy were the most common mentioned types of cosmetic surgery they remembered. (40.0%) of students whose mothers employed accept doing cosmetic surgery and only (11.8%) of non-employed mothers accept doing surgery. This difference was statistically significant (p=0.000). Mean age of students who accept doing cosmetic surge yeas higher than those do not accept but difference in mean age was statistically insignificant (p= 0.063). About two-thirds of participants (66.4%) agreed that "women perform more cosmetic surgery than men". No one of participants reported undergoing cosmetic surgery. Conclusion and recommendations: The students did not know the exact meaning of cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery. Mass media play an important role as a source of information. we recommend further studies to find out other personal factors affecting attitude towards plastic surgeries and to study other population beyond educational institutions.

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Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Plastic Surgery among Females Students at Faculty of Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

Hammadi¹,

El-shereef²

2017

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“…Overall, photos were rated as looking more fatigued. Notably many of these descriptors are associated with aging appearance, and a desire to look younger was a primary motivator for cosmetic surgery in a qualitative study of midlife women (Thorpe, Ahmed & Steer, 2004). …”

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Body image in adult women: moving beyond the younger years

Kilpela

Becker

Wesley

et al. 2015

Advances in Eating Disorders

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In spite of copious literature investigating body dissatisfaction and its correlates in adolescents and young adult women, exploration of body image disturbances in adult women remains an underrepresented domain in the literature. Yet, there are many reasons to suspect that body image in adult women both may differ from and possibly be more complex than that of younger women. Adult women face myriad factors influencing body image beyond those delineated in the body image literature on adolescents and young adult women. For instance, aging-related physiological changes shift the female body further away from the thin-young-ideal, which is the societal standard of female beauty. Further, life priorities and psychological factors evolve with age as well. As such, adult women encounter changes that may differentially affect body image across the lifespan. This paper aims to provide an up-to-date review of the current literature on the relationship between body image and associated mental and physical health problems and behaviors in adult women. In addition, we explore factors that may influence body image in adult women. Lastly, we use this review to identify significant gaps in the existing literature with the aim of identifying critical targets for future research.

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“…Some qualitative studies have supported this view. For example, some female patients made explicit reference to the importance of adhering to the cultural appearance standards (Thorpe et al., ). Davis () reported similar findings: To female interviewees, the body parts that had to be modified were those which did not fit in with the cultural standards.…”

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Existential motive underlying cosmetic surgery: A terror management analysis

Tam

2013

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Why do people consider cosmetic surgery? Based on the terror management theory, the present research identifies an existential motive: Through cosmetic surgery, people can symbolically defend against their death anxiety. A correlational study and an experiment showed that death terror, whether operationalized as individual differences in fear of death or experimentally manipulated mortality salience, was associated with stronger acceptance of cosmetic surgery. This association was absent among participants who did not consider physical appearance important, and weaker among those who were satisfied about their appearance. Also, this association was particularly strong among those with high explicit self‐esteem. This concurs with the recent theoretical development about the role of self‐esteem in symbolic defenses against death terror.

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Reasons for undergoing cosmetic surgery: a retrospective study

Cited by 25 publications

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Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Plastic Surgery among Females Students at Faculty of Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Plastic Surgery among Females Students at Faculty of Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

Body image in adult women: moving beyond the younger years

Existential motive underlying cosmetic surgery: A terror management analysis

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