Female students' appearance evaluation became more positive, whereas male students' appearance evaluation showed no significant change.
In Study 1, 165 college females completed the Fear of Negative Appearance Evaluation Scale [FNAES; Thomas, C.M., Keery, H., Williams, R., & Thompson, J. K. (1998, November). The Fear of Negative Appearance Evaluation Scale: Development and preliminary validation.
The psychometric properties and correlates of a measure designed to assess fear of negative appearance evaluation are presented.
The full, 69-item version consists of seven factor subscales: 1) appearance evaluation, 2) appearance orientation, 3) fitness evaluation, 4) fitness orientation, 5) health evaluation, 6) health orientation, and 7) illness orientation [ 30].
Differences between the two classes identified by the LCA were negligible and insignificant for Appearance Evaluation and Body Areas Satisfaction, Fitness Evaluation and Orientation, and Health Orientation.
The association between fear of negative appearance evaluation and non-visual characteristics might be explained by a reduced feeling of femininity [ 35].
In this study, the shorter version of the MBSRQ-AS was used and only the appearance evaluation subscale was used, because we were concerned with measuring body image.
These counts are not mutually exclusive and an individual patient could feature in one, two or all three counts because the appearance, evaluation and treatment of metastases is a dynamic process.
Our results are in line with the findings of de Niet et al. [ 17] showing that PCOS symptoms might be negatively associated with self-esteem, body satisfaction, and/or fear of negative appearance evaluation [ 16, 17].
