Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients
Purpose: It has been known that psychological factors have an important effect on the decision to undergo aesthetic surgery. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the personality traits of people admitted for aesthetic surgery differ from those of people who have never planned to unde...
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| author | S. Visal Buturak Elif Sari Omer Oguzturk Aslihan Kirici Gunes |
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| description | Purpose: It has been known that psychological factors have an important effect on the decision to undergo aesthetic surgery. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the personality traits of people admitted for aesthetic surgery differ from those of people who have never planned to undergo aesthetic surgery in their lives.
Material and Methods: Forty-seven patients who were referred to the outpatient clinic of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Kirikkale University to undergo aesthetic surgery were enrolled in the study. Forty-three subjects who neither underwent nor planned to undergo aesthetic surgery at any time in their lives were included in the study as a control group. Psychometric evaluation of the patients and the control group was conducted using the Turkish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).
Results: Taking 65 as a cut-off point, the ratio of patients who scored and #8805;65 on the hysteria subscale of the MMPI was found to be significantly higher in the sugery group than in the control group and the ratio on social introversion subscale was also higher in the patient group than in the control group, very closely approaching significance.
Conclusion: It should be kept in mind that people who have personality traits that can be partially improved with psyachiatric treatment, such as social introverted, lonely, timid, shy, and hysterical and feel the need for validation by others, may be more often admitted for aesthetic surgery. [Cukurova Med J 2016; 41(3.000): 554-558] |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74b1aa45d677415ea5ab16b8c2457d8f2023-02-15T16:12:12ZengCukurova UniversityÇukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi0250-51502016-09-0141355455810.17826/cukmedj.237515222811Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patientsS. Visal Buturak0Elif Sari1Omer Oguzturk2Aslihan Kirici Gunes3Kirikkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Kirikkale, Turkey Kirikkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Kirikkale, Turkey Karabuk University Faculty of Medicine, Karabuk, Turkey Dr Abdurrahman Yurtarslan Oncology Training And Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkiyePurpose: It has been known that psychological factors have an important effect on the decision to undergo aesthetic surgery. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the personality traits of people admitted for aesthetic surgery differ from those of people who have never planned to undergo aesthetic surgery in their lives. Material and Methods: Forty-seven patients who were referred to the outpatient clinic of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Kirikkale University to undergo aesthetic surgery were enrolled in the study. Forty-three subjects who neither underwent nor planned to undergo aesthetic surgery at any time in their lives were included in the study as a control group. Psychometric evaluation of the patients and the control group was conducted using the Turkish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results: Taking 65 as a cut-off point, the ratio of patients who scored and #8805;65 on the hysteria subscale of the MMPI was found to be significantly higher in the sugery group than in the control group and the ratio on social introversion subscale was also higher in the patient group than in the control group, very closely approaching significance. Conclusion: It should be kept in mind that people who have personality traits that can be partially improved with psyachiatric treatment, such as social introverted, lonely, timid, shy, and hysterical and feel the need for validation by others, may be more often admitted for aesthetic surgery. [Cukurova Med J 2016; 41(3.000): 554-558]http://www.scopemed.org/fulltextpdf.php?mno=222811aesthetic surgerypersonalityhysteriapsychological factors |
| spellingShingle | S. Visal Buturak Elif Sari Omer Oguzturk Aslihan Kirici Gunes Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi aesthetic surgery personality hysteria psychological factors |
| title | Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients |
| title_full | Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients |
| title_short | Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients |
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