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• TITLE: Gender Differences in Aesthetic Rhinoplasty Patients: A Study on Psychopathological Symptoms

  AUTHORS: Mohsen Naraghi, Mohammad Atari

  KEYWORDS: Aesthetic Surgery, Gender, Psychopathology, Rhinoplasty

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol.5 No.1, January 7, 2016

  ABSTRACT: The aim of the current study was to investigate the gender differences in aesthetic rhinoplasty candidates in dimensions of psychopathology. Considering the existing body of literature, it was hypothesized that women would score higher in different dimensions of psychopathology. SCL-90-R was used to evaluate the differences. This instrument consists of 10 subscales which measure depression, anxiety, phobia, hostility, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, and added items of psychopathology. Independent t-test between male patients (n = 19) and female patients (n = 32) was performed. Findings indicated that women had higher scores in four subscales. Women had higher scores in anxiety (P