title: Psychological characteristics of women who undergo single and multiple cosmetic surgeries.
abstract: Women over the age of 30 who had undergone single (N = 20) and multiple (N = 16) facial cosmetic surgery were compared with a control group (N = 49) on five personality measures. Cosmetic surgical patients were found to be more narcissistic (p = 0.05) and to have more problems with separation-individuation (p = 0.01) than the control group, but no group differences were found on measures of self-esteem and social anxiety. Cosmetic surgical patients had a more positive body image than the control group (p = 0.009). There were no differences between the single- and multiple-surgery groups. The study confirmed some, but not all, of the many prior clinical reports about personality disturbances in cosmetic surgical patients.
authors.affiliation: California Graduate Institute, Los Angeles, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunofsky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009289:Narcissism; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012086:Reoperation / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000523:psychology*