여성의 피부관리가 자아존중감에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

Abstract

In modern society, as taking care of appearance is acknowledged much important skin care comes to the fore either as a part of it. So, it is thought so important for the moderns living socially that clean and bright skin gives a good first impression to others. Also, satisfaction to oneself lets have a confidence and acknowledge one's own ability and value. Furthermore, it influences satisfaction to whole life. Thus, skin care which is necessary for a good first impression enhances self-respects and lets have a qualified and affirmative life. So, this study aims at investigating how women recognizes skin care and what attitude they have with comprehending the effect skin care gives self-respects, providing basic data for an affirmative life and suggesting a necessity for the differential skin care system. Research has been conducted basing on a theoretical background with viewing technical books, research thesis and academic treatise. After preliminary examination, total 500 sheets of self-answering questionnaires were provided to 20s~50s women residing in Seoul and Gyeonggi-province and among them, 454 persons answered to use for final analysis.

The result of research is 1. Most of answerers are 40s, and they are primarily high school graduates, working mother, married, monthly income is below ￦2,000,000, and they are sleeping average 7-8 hours a day which considers sufficient comparing to the recommended sleeping hours.

2. In the aspect of recognition and attitude toward skin care, the higher their age is, the more they are concerned with skin and willingly burdening on expenditure for skin care.

The highly they are educated and the much they gains as a professional, the much they are paying expenses for skin care, and in modern times which management of appearance and skin care is much important as well call it "appearance for appearance principle", there is a necessity of skin care, and as the status of skin care influences first impression according to women's advance into society and necessity of social relationship, women have been understanding differently that it needs to manage skin care, depending on their social situation, earned income and educational degree. It appears that insufficient sleep and spiritual inconvenience gives much stress. As a method of diminishing such stress, even though it was different according to vocation and age, most of them seemed to ease stress by means of activities of interests and by virtue of religion.

It appears that they feel skin status not bad and skin type compound-property. It was examined that washing face is conducted, in general, with a form cleansing after cleansing, and they are aware that fresh cleansing after make-up is important in skin care with a double washing.

As one of skin trouble, most of women are concerned with liver spot and freckles, and they are perceiving it caused by insufficient skin care in an ordinary days. Also, they understood what is most necessary for improvement of skin condition is continual skin care and physical relax. Accordingly, in order to do skin care well, it is necessary, of course, not to be less stressed but it will be greatly helpful in maintaining more fresh skin than outlook from real age to manage skin steadily with comprehending the method of washing face or the reason of skin trouble,

3. It is found that skin care (knowledge, conduct and method of managing skin) is well understood and managed as it goes older. Also, the higher their academic background is, the more information and common sense for skin care is abundant. The group of clerical workers or specialists are active in skin care by dint of their knowledge of it.

3. The older they are, the higher self-respects appears and the highly they are educated engaging in special vocation and the much earnings they are gaining. They have many experiences and high attainments under socially stable situation, and it is same result that as they are richer in economical life, self-respects will be higher.

4. It will give a meaningful effect to the hypothesis that, when common sense, information, conduct and method for skin care become abundant, it will enhance self-respects. Accordingly, as it makes elevate the sense of competence if information and method of women's skin care become abundant, and if knowledge and information is higher, the feeling of value and belongings are increased, common sense, information, conduct and method for skin care are important factors in enhancing the sense of competence, the feeling of belongings, the sense of value and the degree of satisfaction, and the result of investigation is that the better we acknowledge the method of skin care and put it into practice, the higher we have self-respects and the higher self-respects is, the better we put skins care into practice. Also, it is thought that this conduct enhances the level of a daily life and will become a foundation for an affirmative thought.

In conducting sample survey, as women in the territory of Gyeonggi province are its subject, there is a limitation in generalizing the result of research. Accordingly, the problem ahead for this research makes men as the subject and it requires to investigate, compare and study the relationship among self-respects, skin care and behavior for management of appearance depending on each territory.