Aim
The purpose of this study is to explain how subjective experiences around the family affect interest in esthetic surgery. Specific questions were made to investigate this:
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by family members who has been talking about undergoing or have been undergoing esthetic surgery?
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by the experience of divorce during childhood and growing up with a single parent?
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by physical or psychological absence of mother or father, during childhood?
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by at least one person who has been supported and loving, during childhood?
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by family functions that are unmet?
- How is the interest in esthetic surgery affected by the experience of a family crisis?
Method
This thesis has used a quantitative research method, with a survey. An own survey was made, and handed out in Stockholm. 60 surveys was handed out, of which 58 was answered. The survey was managed anonymously, and at first consolidated in spreadsheets of Excel and then analyzed in SPSS, trough Mann-Whitney and Chi-2 test, and also logistic regression.
Results
The predictors of interest in esthetic surgery are parents who talked about undergoing esthetic surgery (P = 0.049), lower estimates of mental presence of the mother (P = 0.029), lower estimates of mental presence of father (P = 0.042), lower estimate of that the father has given respect of the own person´s value (P = 0.001) and lower estimation of that the family have provided a good basis for a stable and harmonious childhood (P = 0.003). None of these could individually explain the dependent variable's variation, but all of them interacted. By gradually exclude the predictors in a logistic regression, the main predictor of interest in esthetic surgery was identified, which was the last one mentioned.
Conclusions
The conclusion is that certain subjective experiences around the family affect interest in cosmetic surgery, while the influence of others has shown no significant differences.