Beautiful skins hides all fault – Effects of body satisfaction on self-esteem and shyness in Japanese female youths

Introduction

Literature review

Discussion

Method

Background

Statement of problem

Relationship

Research objectives

Measurement

Procedure

Participants

Hypothesis

Limitation and recommendations

Body satisfaction

Self-esteem and shyness

Relationship

Second survey

Third survey

First survey

201 female university students from 18 to 23 years old at University of Tokyo in June-July 2004

135 female university students from 18 to 29 years old at University of Tokyo in mid-November 2012

65 female university students from 18 to 23 years old at University of Saitama Prefecture in mid-May 2013

Question of body satisfaction

Self-esteem scale

Shyness scale

• 32 items
• 26 questions in the ‘Body cathexis scale’ that measures the satisfaction
• Respond is using a 5-point Likert type scale ranging from ‘it is very satisfied (5) to it is not satisfied (1)

• Scale used are 9 items excluding the 8th item
• Respond is using a 4-point Likert type scale ranging from ‘it is true (4) to it is not true (1)’

• Consist of 5 items in social anxiety and 5 items in social passivity
• Respond is using a 4-point Likert type scale ranging from ‘it is true (4) to it is not true (1)’

• Participants recruited from psychology classes
• Responses will be remain anonymous and confidential
• Researcher conducted short debriefing about research purposes at the end of class period

Satisfaction with four other body parts have no effects on shyness or self-esteem

Merely cross-sectional study, thus it would be necessary to investigate longitudinal study

Authors plan to fill the ideal and the reality of the gap of body image in Japanese female youths, makeup lessons or skin care lesson effectively

This study examined the influenced of satisfaction from each body part in Japanese female youths on self-esteem and shyness

Dissatisfaction with one’s own body will result in lower self-esteem and shyness

The importance of appearance is high as it has the tendency to influence people to feel dissatisfied with their bodies

Dissatisfaction with the body usually is accompanied by the individual’s feelings of dissatisfaction with particular body parts in addition to the whole body

Female adolescents who feel satisfied with their skin have a higher level of self-esteem

A positive correlation between body dissatisfaction and shyness

People who are dissatisfied with their body have high social anxiety

Low level of body satisfaction had the following effects ranging from a sense of anxiety, embarrassment and loss of speech to shyness in conversations

Limited research that show the relationhip between body parts on self-esteem and shyness

Results

Factor analysis

Correlation analysis

Path analysis

The data of 367 female university students (M = 19.63, SD = 1.50) were analyzed and no deficiencies in their responses were found

Correlation analysis was performed to examine relationship between satisfaction of five body part, self- esteem and shyness

Relationships between self-esteem and all of each factor of body satisfaction were positive correlation at the 1% level (.275 to .441).

There was a negative correlation between self-esteem, social anxiety and social passivity at the 1% level (r = - .462, r = -.316).

Standardized partial regression coefficient was, "Skin" from the self-esteem was a direct positive related (β = .44, p <.001)from self-esteem to social passivity

The result reveals that satisfaction with "Skin" strengthens self-esteem and weakens social passivity and anxiety.

Effect of self-esteem only on satisfaction with skin

Female adolescents who feel satisfied with their skin have a higher level of self-esteem

Previous study: It has been reported that parents demonstrate the degree of the ability of body satisfaction to influence self-esteem

Effect of shyness on satisfaction with “skin” to mediate self-esteem

Satisfaction with four other body parts had no effect on shyness or self-esteem

That hypothesis was not supported by some scholars

Previous study: Social skills improve shyness

This study: It is suggested shyness can be improved by increasing body satisfaction in form of skin care lessons.

Negative correlation between body dissatisfaction and self-esteem

Positive correlation between body dissatisfaction and social physique anxiety