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Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity Presented By:

• Izhar Ahmed Khan• Natasha Zahid Maqbool• Zehra Nadeem• Varda Bilal• Maham Bilal

+What is Appearance? Appearance is how someone or something looks like.

Topics related to appearance have been under consideration since centuries.

Appearance has been given immense importance and taken care of by not only females but also males.

The aim of out study was to find out how sensitive college students are towards rejection due to the way they looked.

+What is Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity?

Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity (Appearance-RS) is a personality processing system characterized by anxious concerns and expectations about being rejected based on one's physical attractiveness.

People differ in their sensitivity rejection based on appearance.

Physically attractive people have a higher self-esteem.

+Researches & Theories

Many researches have been conducted by different researchers related to this topic.

Research by Julie McLachlan, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck and Leanne McGregor suggests that rejection is subject to anxious and angry expectations of rejection.

According to Doyle & Markiewicz, it is important for a child to gain support from parents as it develops their confidence and self-esteem.

Another research conducted by McDonald and his colleagues suggested that good relations with friends and family helps individuals cope better with rejection.

+Hypothesis Gender has a significant

effect on how much and individual is anxious and concerned about his appearance and how other people would think of him.

Age is also a factor that has an effect on how much an individual is anxious and concerned about his appearance and how he expects other people would think of him.

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53.2%

46.8%

Questionnaires

Male

Female

Methodology

Students of a business university.

All belonging to Bachelors program.

Questionnaire was handed to each.

Out of 50, 47 responded to the questionnaire.

SAMPLE

+Methodology

Adopted questionnaire of Downey and Feldman (1996).

Measures rejection sensitivity due to appearance.

In the questionnaire 5 situations were given to the participants in which they had to imagine themselves and indicate their concerns and expectation of rejection.

Example of a situation mentioned in the questionnaire: You are trying on clothes at a department store and you notice that you are five pounds heavier than last wee.

Concern and expectation recorded separately on a scale of 1 to 6 points. (1=Very unconcerned & 6=Very concerned)

DATA COLLECTION

+Methodology

Questionnaires given out to students.

Took about 7-10 minutes to fill up.

Dependent variable – Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity

Independent variable – Gender & Age

PROCEDURE

+Results

Appearance-RS is based on gender and age of an individual.

Appearance-RS between females is higher as compared to males.

Frequency Distribution

N Mean StandardDeviation

Male 22 11.7 3.6

Female 25 13.5 0.5

+ Results also proves the second hypothesis.

Individuals of ages 18-21 are more sensitive compared to individuals between 21-24 about rejection due to appearance.

Frequency Distribution

N Mean StandardDeviation

18-21 25 13 4.8

21-24 22 10.2 7.9

+Conclusion

After study as a whole, it is evident that there is a difference between males and females.

Female students have more anxious concern and expectations about their appearance as compared to male students.

Age, however, does not play a vital role but does have some effect on how anxious concerns and expectations university students have.

+Future Research & Considerations There were several limitations of this study.

There were not ample students who filled out the questionnaire.

Research conducted in only one business university.

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