Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Sonal Madan Johar ¹, Radha Kashyap ², Usha Kulshreshtha ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN
2 Department of Clothing and Textiles International College for Girls, IIS University, Jaipur, IN
3 Department of Psychology University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of proximity of clothing to self and perceived clothing deprivation with self-confidence among three different socio-economic groups, to find the moderating effect of socio-economic status on this relationship and to find the percentage of variance in self-confidence as predicted by proximity of clothing to self and perceived clothing deprivation of adolescent girls. Participants were 600 adolescent girls (200 each from low, middle and high socio-economic group) aged between 15-18 years from only girls schools of Jaipur city. They completed a questionnaire that included measures of socio-economic status, proximity of clothing to self, perceived clothing deprivation, and self-confidence. Correlation analysis, sub-group analysis and regression analysis indicated no significant correlation between proximity of clothing to self and self-confidence. Socio-economic status is not found to have any moderating effect on the relationship between proximity of clothing to self and self-confidence and proximity of clothing to self does not account for any significant amount of variance in self-confidence. Perceived clothing deprivation has a significant negative relationship with self-confidence. Socio-economic status has moderating effect on the relationship between perceived clothing deprivation and self-confidence in the low/high and middle/high sub-group. Perceived clothing deprivation causes 11.1% variance in self-confidence.

Keywords

Clothing, Clothing Behaviour, Proximity of Clothing to Self, Perceived Clothing Deprivation, Self-Confidence

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