- 著者
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余語 真夫
浜 治世
津田 兼六
鈴木 ゆかり
互 恵子
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本健康心理学会
- 雑誌
- 健康心理学研究 (ISSN:09173323)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.3, no.1, pp.28-32, 1990 (Released:2015-07-08)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
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1
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This experiment demonstrates how the use of cosmetics on a woman’s face affects her psychological well-being. The subjects were twenty-four women in their twenties. They have a habit of wearing wear make-up in their everyday life. The experimental conditions were: (a) no make-up, (b) self-make-up using their own cosmetics, (c) make-up by a professional female beautician. Each subject was asked to rate the degree of her self-confidence, self-satisfaction, state anxiety, and activation, and to utter a vowel sound for three seconds under each of the above-mentioned make-up conditions. The main results showed: (a) the use of cosmetics increases feelings of self-confidence and self-satisfaction, regardless of whether make-up was applied by the subject or a professional beautician, (b) the activation level increases while the degree of state anxiety decreases when make-up was applied by a professional beautician, and (c) the subjects’ voice pitch heightened when their make-up was applied by a professional beautician; this suggests that the subjects’ emotional state was activated under this condition. In conclusion, our study found that the use of cosmetics gives people more self-confidence and makes them feel happier, thus enhancing their psychological well-being.