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Abstract
Background: This study aimed to investigate the acceptance of cosmetic surgery among women in relation to their happiness and life satisfaction.
Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study employing latent profile analysis was conducted. An online survey was administered to 422 women between November 2024 and February 2025. Data were collected using a Sociodemographic Form, the Cosmetic Surgery Acceptance Scale, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire-Short Form, and the Contentment with Life Assessment Scale.
Results: Participants reported moderate average levels of happiness, life satisfaction, and cosmetic surgery acceptance. Correlation analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between happiness and life satisfaction. However, neither happiness nor life satisfaction showed a significant overall correlation with cosmetic surgery acceptance. In the latent profile analysis, participants were divided into three different groups as low (Class1), medium (Class2) and high (Class3) in cosmetic surgery acceptance. In the analysis, it was found that of the three acceptance groups defined, the high acceptance group had higher scores for happiness and life satisfaction than the other groups. In the logistic regression analysis, it was seen that sociodemographic variables had the potential to increase cosmetic surgery acceptance levels, but it was not found to be statistically significant.
Conclusion: Happiness and life satisfaction are interrelated but do not predict overall acceptance of cosmetic surgery. The high acceptance group exhibited greater psychological well-being, revealing the heterogeneity of acceptance. Sociodemographic variables did not prove predictive. The findings call traditional assumptions into question.
Level of evidence iv: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is a publication of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the official journal of the European Association of Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (EASAPS), Società Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva ed Estetica (SICPRE), Vereinigung der Deutschen Aesthetisch Plastischen Chirurgen (VDAPC), the Romanian Aesthetic Surgery Society (RASS), Asociación Española de Cirugía Estética Plástica (AECEP), La Sociedad Argentina de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reparadora (SACPER), the Rhinoplasty Society of Europe (RSE), the Iranian Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeons (ISPAS), the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons (SAPS), the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), the Egyptian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ESPRS), and the Sociedad Chilena de Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (SCCP).
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery provides a forum for original articles advancing the art of aesthetic plastic surgery. Many describe surgical craftsmanship; others deal with complications in surgical procedures and methods by which to treat or avoid them. Coverage includes "second thoughts" on established techniques, which might be abandoned, modified, or improved. Also included are case histories; improvements in surgical instruments, pharmaceuticals, and operating room equipment; and discussions of problems such as the role of psychosocial factors in the doctor-patient and the patient-public interrelationships.
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is covered in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, SciSearch, Research Alert, Index Medicus-Medline, and Excerpta Medica/Embase.
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