Perfectionism and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms among Men Seeking and Not Seeking Hair Transplant
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Perfectionism, Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms, Balding menAbstract
The study was intended to examine the relationship of perfectionism with body dysmorphic disorder symptoms among men seeking and not seeking hair transplants. For this purpose, the cross-sectional method was used. The study was conducted at different dermatological/hair transplant clinics and at different government and private institutions in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, from February 2020 to October 2020. The sample was comprised of adult balding men aged 19 to 65 years from both clinical (hair transplant clinics) and non-clinical settings (banks, offices, parks, shopping malls) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. For data collection, purposive sampling was used. The instruments used were the Multi-Dimensional Perfectionism Scale and Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for BDD(YBOCS-BDD). The sample was comprised of 150 balding men, 75 (50%) each were taken from clinical and non-clinical settings. The results have revealed that Perfectionism was significantly positively related to body dysmorphic disorder symptoms (p<.01). The Mean value for perfectionism was 184.53 (19.92) and on body dysmorphic disorder symptoms was 14.37 (10.11) for men who were seeking hair transplant while the mean value on perfectionism was 180.16 (22.75) and on body dysmorphic disorder symptoms was 11.25 (17.89) for men who were not seeking treatment. Therefore, Men seeking hair transplants had higher levels of perfectionism and body dysmorphic disorder symptoms than men not seeking hair transplants.
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