WOMEN'S BODY SATISFACTION SCALE

Abstract

Relevance of the study. Modern socio-cultural trends, which include the increasing displacement of a person's living space into the virtual world, the promotion of certain standards of appearance, rapidly changing and slipping away before one can approach them, suggest focusing attention on one's own body as something capable of guaranteeing social success, acceptance, and achievement. Currently, the problems of a negative attitude towards one's own body are becoming more and more widespread. A separate issue remains the determination of the degree of correlation between ideas about the significance of certain parts of the body in assessing the attractiveness of appearance and their self-esteem.

The Aim of the presented study is to create a psychodiagnostic tool for studying cognitions about the significance of certain parts of the body in female attractiveness in the structure of self-consciousness and self-esteem of these parts of the body in women.

Results. The presented questionnaire was created to diagnose self-esteem and the degree of satisfaction with individual parts of the body. Empirical analysis of the indicators of the importance of individual body parts in assessing female attractiveness showed that women themselves define the face, eyes, nose, skin, hair and weight, ears and teeth as the most significant parts, and the feet, back and chest as the least significant. It was shown that the importance in assessing the attractiveness of such body parts as ears, neck, stomach, legs and nose increases as dissatisfaction with one's own body increases. With mild dissatisfaction with one's own body, the importance of the chest, pelvis and knees is higher in assessing female attractiveness. It was found that, provided that they have an adequate attitude towards their body, satisfaction with individual body parts in women is the highest and corresponds to a high level. In general, women with an adequate attitude towards their body are moderately satisfied with their own face, eyes, hips, hair, nose, teeth, ears and weight. They have a high self-esteem of the attractiveness of their own jaws, neck, chest, breasts, back, abdomen, arms and hands, buttocks, legs, knees, feet, height. In general, mild body dissatisfaction in women involves a more critical assessment of the attractiveness of their own buttocks and dissatisfaction with their own weight in women. Women with mild body dissatisfaction adequately assess their own nose, ears, teeth, jaws, neck, breasts. High dissatisfaction with their own body in women involves the most critical assessments of their own body parts, especially the face, nose, breasts, legs, hips, knees and weight, which are important factors in assessing female attractiveness.