Perceptions of physical appearance and adolescents' social alienation.
For 127 adolescent boys and 149 girls, correlations of subjective ratings for "physical appeal" and "good-looking" with scores on Dean's Alienation Scale and an 18-item self-survey, showed self-judgments, but not objective judgments, of appearance were associated with some forms of social alienation, especially over-all alienation and powerlessness.
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University of Houston-Clear Lake.
D000293:Adolescent; D001504:Beauty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012918:Social Alienation; D012934:Social Isolation