The role of self-esteem in patients of cosmetologist

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4798.2017.91010

Keywords:

self-esteem, self-attitude, cosmetological patients, appearance, medical-psychological help, psychodermatology, cosmetological medicine

Abstract

The aim of the work was the revelation of self-esteem in cosmetological patients.

Contingent and methods of research. The research was carried out on the base of medical center “CA-Clinic” during 2014 – 2016. The testing included 286 women, who addressed for cosmetological help.

Results. The self-attitude of women with low self-esteem, who addressed to the cosmetologist, was disharmonious and was characterized with the high level of self-non-acceptance, lowered self-respect and self-understanding, alienation of subjectively negative features, exaggeration of imperfections, acute self-criticism. In women with high self-esteem the disorder of harmony was manifested by the high level of self-acceptance, exaggeration of positive features and absence of criticism to the negative ones, lowered self-reflection.

Conclusions. Cosmetological patients, who have the lowered or high self-esteem form the separate category of clients and need the use of medical-cosmetological arrangements, directed on disharmonic self-attitude

Author Biography

Михайло Анатолійович Юдін, Medical Center “SA-Clinic” Klovsky descent str., 10, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01021

Candidate of Medical Sciences

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Published

2017-01-31

How to Cite

Юдін, М. А. (2017). The role of self-esteem in patients of cosmetologist. ScienceRise: Medical Science, (1 (9), 28–31. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4798.2017.91010

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Medical Science