title: Relationship of negative self-schemas and attachment styles with appearance schemas.
abstract: The purpose was to test, among women, the relationship between negative self-schemas and styles of attachment with men and women and two types of appearance investment (Self-evaluative and Motivational Salience). Predominantly Caucasian undergraduate women (N=194) completed a modified version of the Relationship Questionnaire, the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form, and the Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised. Linear multiple regression analyses were conducted with Motivational Salience and Self-evaluative Salience of appearance serving as dependent variables and relevant demographic variables, negative self-schemas, and styles of attachment to men serving as independent variables. Styles of attachment to women were not entered into these regression models because Pearson correlations indicated they were not related to either dependent variable. Self-evaluative Salience of appearance was related to impaired autonomy and performance negative self-schema and the preoccupation style of attachment with men, while Motivational Salience of appearance was related only to the preoccupation style of attachment with men.
authors.affiliation: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 74078, United States. Ledoux@bcm.edu
authors.forename: Tracey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ledoux
authors.forename: Carrie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Winterowd
authors.forename: Tamara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: Julie Dorton
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D010551:Personality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult