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Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 08;12:719318. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.719318. eCollection 2021.

Styling the Self: Clothing Practices, Personality Traits, and Body Image Among Israeli Women.

Frontiers in psychology

Tali Stolovy

Affiliations

  1. Academic College of Society and the Arts, Netanya, Israel.
  2. Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

PMID: 34566800 PMCID: PMC8455911 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.719318

Abstract

Research has shown that women tend to use clothes to present or disguise their bodies and that clothing practices can be predicted by body image. This study explored the relationships between clothing practices, personality traits, and body image among Israeli women, using the Big Five personality traits model (NEO-FFI) and a body image measure (MBSRQ) to explore clothing styles and practices among Israeli women (

Copyright © 2021 Stolovy.

Keywords: body image; clothing practices; clothing styles; personality traits; women–clothing

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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