Abstract:
Nowadays, an increasing number of cosmetic surgery procedures are performed in the adolescence because of their fascination in physical beauty. The group of female students in Patumwan Bangkok School who turn to early adulthood is grown by the civil factors. There is still a question on the persuasive factors which may lead the individual trends to undergo cosmetic surgery. Objective: To assesse their trends of undergoing cosmetic surgery, measures of self-esteem as well as the factors affecting undergoing cosmetic surgery in grade 12th female students in Patumwan Bangkok School by a cross-sectional descriptive study. Materials and method: The data is assessed to two hundred and eighty female students who study in Patumwan Bangkok School. From January to February, 2016 were enrolled by a simple random sampling method. They all completed the questionnaire about Individual Information, MPI (The Maudsley Personality Inventory), Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES) and Trend to undergo cosmetic surgery question. The data all were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, One-way ANOVA and Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression Analysis. Result find out that greater likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery (66.4%) as moderate level as self-esteem scores (63.3%) Related factors with statistically significant to population included kind of media at the 0.001 level, programmed of studying and body satisfaction at the level 0.05. Stepwise regression analysis showed two major predictors for likelihood: kind of media and programmed of studying with a predictive value of 12.5%.