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Interest in Cosmetic Surgery and Body Image Satisfaction

Women Figure  4  presents  women's  mean  scores  on  two measures  of  body  satisfaction  (self-rated  attractiveness  and  comfort  in  a  swimsuit)  and  the  measure of  face  satisfaction,  based  on  women's  degree  of interest  in  cosmetic  surgery  and  liposuction.  As predicted,  planned  comparisons  revealed  no  difference  between  wromen  interested  versus  not  interested  in  cosmetic  surgery  only  on  measures  of self-rated  attractiveness,  comfort  in  a  swimsuit,  or satisfaction  with  one's  face  (p  >  0.001).  Also  as predicted,  planned  comparisons  revealed  that women  interested  in  liposuction  and  those  interested  in  both  liposuction  and  cosmetic  surgery reported  poorer  self-rated  attractiveness  and  less comfort  in  a  swimsuit  than  individuals  not  interested  (p  <  0.001).  The  magnitude  of  these  differences  was  moderate  to  large,  as  shown  by  the  effect sizes  presented  in  Table  2.  This  pattern  of  results occurred  even  when  body  mass  index  was  entered as  a  covariate  in  the  analysis  of  variances  described above. Men Figure  5  presents  men's  mean  scores  on  body image  measures,  based  on  their  degree  of  interest in  cosmetic  surgery  and  liposuction.  As  predicted, men  interested  in  cosmetic  surgery  only  did  not report  poorer  body  image  satisfaction  than  men not  interested  in  cosmetic  surgery.  Men  interested in  cosmetic  surgery  reported  significantly  less  face satisfaction  (p\<  0.001),  although  the  effect  size was  very  small  (d  =  0.11).  As  predicted,  planned comparisons  revealed  that  men  interested  in  liposuction  or  both  liposuction  and  cosmetic  surgery reported  poorer  self-rated  attractiveness  and  less comfort  in  a  swimsuit  than  those  not  interested (p  <  0.001  for  all),  and  these  differences  were moderate  to  large  in  size  (Table  2).  Similar  to  the pattern  of  results  found  with  women,  this  effect occurred  even  when  body  mass  index  was  entered as  a  covariate  In  analysis  of  variance  (see  Further Notes,  number  3).

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