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Association between appearance schemas and personality traits
| dc.contributor.author | Maia, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marques, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-23T09:11:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-23T09:11:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Personality traits play are related to many forms of psychological distress, such as body dissatisfaction. Objectives: To explore the associations between appearance schemas and personality traits. Methods: 494 university students (80.2% females; 99.2% single), with a mean age of 20.17 years old (SD=1.77; range:18-20), filled in the Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised, the NEO-Personality Inventory, and the Composite Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Results: A significant difference was found in Self-evaluation Salience scores by sex [females (M=37.99,SD=7.82); males (M=35.36,SD=6.60);t(489)=-3.052,p=.002]. Having conducted correlations separately, by sex, Self-Evaluation Salience was correlated with Concern Over Mistakes (r=.27), Doubts about Actions (r=.35), and Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism (r=.23). For females, Self-evaluation Salience was correlated with Concern Over Mistakes (r=.34), Personal Standards (r=.25), Doubts about Actions (r=.33), Parental Expectations (r=.24), Parental Criticism (r=.24), Organization (r=.11), Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism (r=.31), Self-Oriented Perfectionism (r=.32), and Neuroticism (r=.33). Concerning Motivational Salience, in the total sample (not separately, by sex), this scale/dimension significantly correlated with Conscientiousness (r=. 18), Personal Standards (r=.23), Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism (r=. 10), and Self-Oriented Perfectionism (r=.29). Conclusions: Females seem to value more their self-appearance and, in females, the salience of appearance in life seems to be associated with maladaptive-perfectionism, as well as with adaptive-perfectionism. In males, the salience of appearance was only related with adaptive perfectionism. Males seem more concerned with their own standards, while for females other´s standards are also relevant. In females the level of salience of appearance in life seems to relate to the experience of feelings, such as anxiety/depression (neuroticism). The motivation to improve appearance seemed to be particularly related, in both sex, to adaptive perfectionism. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1987 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0924-9338 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/35154 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | 000695518700187 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | University students | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Appearance schemas | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Personality | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Association between appearance schemas and personality traits | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | S750 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | S750 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | European Psychiatry | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 64 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Maia | |
| person.givenName | Berta Maria Marinho Rodrigues Maia | |
| person.identifier | 641630 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-6640-6033 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 16837262200 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication | 3925f196-1989-41ba-aa6e-1f75825cbf69 | |
| relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery | 3925f196-1989-41ba-aa6e-1f75825cbf69 |
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