폐경기 여성의 외모관리행동과 우울, 정신건강과의 관계: 신체매력지각의 매개효과를 중심으로 = The Relationship Between Appearance Management Behavior and Depression and Mental Health in Menopausal Women: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Perceived Physical Attractiveness

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of menopausal women's appearance management behavior on depression and mental health and to analyze the mediating effect of body attraction perception empirically. The study subjects collected data through a structured questionnaire for 258 menopausal women in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. For the collected data, descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation, structural equation model, and mediating effect analysis using bootstrapping techniques were conducted. The conclusions drawn through a series of research procedures are as follows. First, the appearance management behavior of postmenopausal women had a statistically significant negative (-) effect on depression and mental health and a positive (+) effect on mental health. Second, the body attractiveness perception of postmenopausal women had a statistically significant negative (-) effect on depression and mental health and a positive (+) effect on mental health. Third, in the relationship between appearance management behavior, depression, and mental health of postmenopausal women, body attraction perception was found to have a partial mediating effect. The results of this study are significant in that they have improved the validity as a mediating variable so that they can overcome negative emotions such as depression in postmenopausal women and live healthy lives through appearance management behavior.