Objective and subjective attractiveness and early adolescent adjustment.
Using data from the Pennsylvania Early Adolescent Transitions Study (PEATS), this study assessed how objective physical attractiveness (PA), indexed by appraisals from others, and subjective PA, indexed by self-appraisals, relate to each other and, in turn, to early adolescent adjustment (indexed by self-esteem and anxiety). Findings indicated a low relationship between objective and subjective PA. Only subjective PA was associated with adjustment.
Jovanovic
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College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
Lerner
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Lerner
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001504:Beauty; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D012649:Self Concept