Research on the influence of college students’ self-appearance cognition on their willingness to have plastic surgery from the perspective of self-objectification

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10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_106How to use a DOI?

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Self-appearance cognition; Plastic surgery willingness; Self-objectification

Abstract

In the 21st century, the primary standard of almost all social behavior is to have “appearance level”. The society begins to pay close attention to college students due to social interaction and job hunting. The study found that college students ‘“appearance anxiety” is serious, which is due to various factors such as reality and others’ evaluation in the Internet. Self-object perspective regards their body as objects from the perspective of a third party, continuously monitoring their body, and creates a gap with the social ideal body shape contrast, forming the problem of appearance anxiety. In this study, through case interview and questionnaire survey, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) college students have generally low cognition of their appearance, and generally care about others ‘evaluation of their appearance, and the evaluation from the Internet will have a significant impact on college students’ cognition of their appearance. Appearance anxiety has become a common psychological distress of college students, and affects the evaluation behavior of college students on self-appearance cognition; (2) college students have high tolerance of plastic surgery in the society, but the proportion of college students with plastic surgery intention is low; (3) college students’ cognition of their own appearance will affect their willingness to have plastic surgery; (4) college students’ appearance anxiety and plastic surgery intention have certain differences in gender.

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AU  - Jingzhu Chen
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/31
TI  - Research on the influence of college students’ self-appearance cognition on their willingness to have plastic surgery from the perspective of self-objectification
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 970
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_106
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