A prospective, multi-site investigation of patient satisfaction and psychosocial status following cosmetic surgery

Sarwer, David B.; Gibbons, Lauren M.; Magee, Leanne; Baker, James L.; Casas, Laurie A.; Glat, Paul M.; Gold, Alan; Jewell, Mark L.; LaRossa, Don; Nahai, Foad; Young, V. Leroy

doi:10.1016/j.asj.2005.03.009

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“…[21] Other psychological variables including depression and anxiety have also shown improvement following aesthetic surgery. [22] The findings of the current study are consistent with another study which reported high scores of depression among aesthetic rhinoplasty patients. [23,24] This study also supports the notion that an interest in aesthetic rhinoplasty is associated with a negative body image.…”

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Self-esteem and rhinoplasty: a case-control study

Naraghi¹,

Atari²

2016

PAR

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Aim: Self-esteem is one's attitude towards oneself. It is one of the most important psychological aspects of rhinoplasty, a common aesthetic operation. Prior studies have indicated an improvement in patients' self-esteem after this operation. The aim of current study was to preoperatively compare self-esteem in patients seeking aesthetic rhinoplasty with that of functional rhinoplasty patients. Methods: A total of 42 patients completed the validated Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale preoperatively (21 aesthetic surgery patients and 21 functional surgery patients). Those with both aesthetic and functional purposes were categorized regarding their primary objective. The t-test for independent groups was used for analysis of the data, and Cohen's d was calculated as a measure of effect size. Results: The mean level of self-esteem in the aesthetic surgery group was significantly lower than that of the functional surgery group (P < 0.05). Age, gender, socio-economic status, and educational backgrounds were analyzed and comparative analysis of each showed no significant difference between the two groups. The value of effect size measure was very high (d = 1.04). Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that aesthetic rhinoplasty patients had lower self-esteem in comparison with functional rhinoplasty patients.

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Self-esteem and rhinoplasty: a case-control study

Naraghi¹,

Atari²

2016

PAR

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“…The response rate for mailed surveys is typically low, in the range of 49 to 66 percent, 5,[13][14][15][16] with various levels of completion. Existing generic breast questionnaires may lack sufficient specificity to assess the psychological impact of surgical changes.…”

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Prospective Outcome Study of 225 Cases of Breast Augmentation

Swanson

2013

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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“…In several interview studies using volunteer samples, North American women have disavowed external pressures or outside influences on their decisions to pursue surgery (Davis 1995;Gimlin 2000;Gagne and McGaughey 2002). However, in a multi-site study of female undergraduates at six U.S. universities, Sarwer et al (2005b) reported that 68% of respondents who had undergone surgery knew someone else who had, and another 30% identified a family member, a pattern repeated in samples of other American college students (Brown et al 2007;Delinsky 2005). A national survey of Norwegian women found a strong relationship between knowing someone who had surgery and high motivation to obtain surgery (von Soest et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…But a survey study of prospective cosmetic surgery patients in the U.S. found no significant difference in self-esteem between patients and a female control group , and self-esteem did not distinguish between women motivated and unmotivated to pursue surgery in Norway (von Soest et al 2006). The few studies with pre-and post-test designs reported contradictory findings: one showed 6 month postoperative increases in self-esteem measures for patients in Britain across seven different cosmetic surgery procedures (Klassen et al 1996) and two others using small and large multistate clinical samples of American women reported no statistically significant change postoperatively in selfesteem 2 months and 12 months respectively (Bolton et al 2003;Sarwer et al 2005b), a discrepancy potentially attributable to differences in length between surgery and follow up. Self-esteem likely does not operate singularly, however, since it has been found to vary with such things as age (Robins and Trzesniewski 2005;Schieman and Campbell 2001) and marital status groups (Cotten 1999;MacDonald et al 1987;Sinclair et al 2010).…”

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A Test of the Agency Hypothesis in Women’s Cosmetic Surgery Usage

Eriksen

Goering

2011

Sex Roles

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Women's agency-their ability to make conscious choices and to act on them-is a central consideration in feminist theories of cosmetic surgery. Several key issues in this longstanding debate are how much external or coercive influence women experience (or acknowledge) in their choice to pursue surgery, whether they are aware of sexist ideology more so than non-recipients, and whether their choice to pursue surgery exemplifies a strong sense of self worth. To test this agency hypothesis, we draw on survey data from a volunteer sample of 202 adult women ages 19-86 years from the southern California region in the U.S. to compare cosmetic surgery recipients to non-recipients across these key sociocultural and personal domains. Results reveal that cosmetic surgery recipients were more likely to have friends who had undergone cosmetic surgery, endorsed more covert sexist beliefs, exhibited greater media usage, and had higher household incomes, than non-recipients. Recipients also evidenced lower ratings in global self-esteem than nonrecipients. These findings challenge some of the notions attendant to agency claims, and engage with conceptions of autonomy introduced in the feminist philosophical literature.

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A prospective, multi-site investigation of patient satisfaction and psychosocial status following cosmetic surgery

Abstract: These results add to a growing body of literature documenting improvements in body image following cosmetic surgery.

Cited by 86 publications

References 28 publications

Self-esteem and rhinoplasty: a case-control study

Self-esteem and rhinoplasty: a case-control study

Prospective Outcome Study of 225 Cases of Breast Augmentation

A Test of the Agency Hypothesis in Women’s Cosmetic Surgery Usage

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