vaseghi S, asadi J, badeleh shamooshaki M T, khajvand khooshli A. (2025). Structural Model of cosmetic surgery acceptance based on body image satisfaction and fear of negative evaluation with mediation of cultural-informational attitudes.
Journal of Psychological Science.
24(146), 191-211.
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Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran. , ardeshir.asadi@yahoo.com
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Background: social interactions play a crucial role in our daily lives. Beauty is pleasing, but is meaningless without health. Cosmetic surgery has become increasingly popular, with more and more people opting to undergo procedures to enhance their physical appearance.
Aims: This study aimed to evaluate modeling of cosmetic surgery acceptance based on body image satisfaction and fear of negative evaluation with mediation of cultural-informational attitudes among advanced degree students and graduates.
Methods: The current research method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population was considered to be students and graduates of advanced degrees in Islamic azad Universities in the province, Golestan university and payam noor. to carry out this research, with the available sampling method in the academic year of 2022-2023, and after removing incomplete answer sheets, 220 complete answer sheets out of 472 in total remained. The data collecting tools in this study were Henderson King's Cosmetic Surgery Acceptance Questionnaire (2005), cash’s Body Satisfaction Questionnaire (2002), Leary's Fear of Negative Evaluation Questionnaire (1983), and Thompson's Socio-cultural Attitude Toward Appearance Questionnaire (2004) and The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software and lisrel 8.1.
Results: The variables of body image satisfaction and fear of negative evaluation have a direct and significant relationship with the acceptance of surgery(P<0.01). Body image satisfaction has an indirect and significant relationship with the acceptance of surgery through the mediation of cultural-informational attitudes(P<0.01). Fear of negative evaluation has an indirect and significant relationship with the acceptance of surgery through the mediation of cultural informational attitudes(P<0.01).
Conclusion: According to the results obtained from this research, the variables of satisfaction with body image and fear of negative evaluation directly and indirectly have a significant relationship with the variable of acceptance of cosmetic surgery, it can be concluded that the acceptance model of cosmetic surgery based on satisfaction with
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Special Received: 2024/06/18 | Accepted: 2024/08/21 | Published: 2025/02/3
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