Predicting Marital Satisfaction based on Social Media and Body Image in Women Who Chose to Have Cosmetic Surgery: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation

The study of marital satisfaction and its determining factors has always been of interest to researchers in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. The objective of the present study was to predict marital satisfaction based on social networks and body image in women who chose to have cosmetic surgery through the mediation of emotion regulation. The research methods were correlation and path analysis. The statistical population included all women who chose to have rhinoplasty in beauty clinics in districts ۱ to ۵ of Tehran in ۲۰۲۱. From among them, ۱۵۰ women were selected through convenience sampling method. They filled out Olson’s (۱۹۹۸) Marital Satisfaction questionnaire, Mojaradi et al.’s (۲۰۱۴) Social Network questionnaire, Body Image questionnaire (۱۹۷۰) and John and Gross’ (۲۰۰۳) Emotion Regulation questionnaire. Descriptive analysis and path analysis were conducted using SPSS software (version ۲۵) and PLS software (version ۳), respectively. The results showed that the direct effects of body image on emotion regulation, emotion regulation on marital satisfaction, virtual social network on emotion regulation, and virtual social network on marital satisfaction were significant (p < ۰.۰۵). However, the direct effect of body image on marital satisfaction was not significant (p < ۰.۰۵). In addition, the indirect effect of body image mediated by emotion regulation on marital satisfaction, and that of virtual social network mediated by emotion regulation on marital satisfaction of women who chose to have cosmetic surgery were not significant (p < ۰.۰۵).

Keywords:

marital satisfaction , Social Networks , body image , emotion regulation , Cosmetic Surgery