| dc.contributor.advisor | Eccles, Sinead | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Elmer, Nicola | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-27T15:22:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-27T15:22:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Elmer, N. (2008). Body art: the influence of self esteem, body image and personality in adults. Bachelors Final Year Project, Dublin Business School. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10788/1783 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the influence of Self Esteem, Body Image and Personality
on obtaining a form of body art in adults. A total of 104 participants completed the
questionnaires, 51 had no form of body art and 53 had. The questionnaire contained,
biographical details, a silhouette to mark the location of body art, the Rosenberg self
esteem scale, the body image questionnaire and the Eysenck personality inventory. A
small negative correlation was found between psychoticism and exposed body art [r= -.246, n=104, p <.05], a negative correlation was found between male body image and
exposed body art [r = -.418, n=27, p<.05]. There was no significance found in the influence of Self Esteem, Body Image and Personality on individual obtaining a form of body art. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Dublin Business School | en |
| dc.rights | Items in Esource are protected by copyright. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/copyright holder. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://esource.dbs.ie/copyright | en |
| dc.subject | Psychology | en |
| dc.subject | Applied psychology | en |
| dc.title | Body art: the influence of self esteem, body image and personality in adults | en |
| dc.type | Final Year Project | en |
| dc.rights.holder | Copyright: The author | en |
| dc.type.degreename | BA in Psychology | en |
| dc.type.degreelevel | BA (Hons) | en |
