An Empirical Study On The Relation Between Evaluation Of Undergraduate Students’ Dressing, Their Physical Self Satisfaction, The Aesthetic Experience And The Willing To Choose The Dressing

Debate about origins of the clothing has no unified conclusion. The study of motivation of dressing indicating that dressing is for showing one’s ability and social status, politeness and beauty, for the physical and mental comfort, ideal self-image, newness and grandness, group identification, convenience, pretending to be youth, neat, conforming to cultural norms, seeking positive role etc. From the point of view of evolutionary psychology, the reasons of dressing above could explain how does the mental mechanism work, but cannot explain why are they exist. For example, they cannot explain why we are dressing for showing our abilities and social status, beauty and ideal self-image. Evolutionary psychology about mate choice thinking that females value the social status of males, because the abilities are conducive to raising offspring; however males values the fine looking and figures of females, because the characteristics mean the healthy of children. The characteristics define the criterion of women’s beauty. Freud also thought the meaning of beauty is extending from the meaning of sexy. The pursuit of beauty and attractiveness contains the pursuit of sexy. The two are inseparable. Garment is the shelter covered on the body. It is the second skin of the human body. It can strengthen the advantages of the body at the same time make up the shortfall, can be the symbol of social status and wealth. And the body shaped by garment are recognized as part of the body, also has a direct appeal. Individuals will always dress up oneself to achieve required body shape characteristics of the opposite sex. Is dressing a way to attract the opposite sex? Although individuals don’t admit that dressing is in order to attract the opposite sex, but the praise from the opposite sex can make individuals feel good and experience aesthetic feeling, so we can conclude that individuals will dressing the clothe appraised by the opposite sex. External influences affect one’s behavior through oneself, while physical self and self-efficacy are linked closely. Physical satisfaction may also affect the aesthetic experience of clothe and so influence the choice of clothing.According to the theory of dressing motivation and evolutionary psychology’s explanation of the origin of dressing, this study aims at verifying and analyzing the theory of dressing motivation and the evolutionary psychology that explaining the origin of dressing though discussing the relation among undergraduates’ dressing evaluation, physical self satisfaction, aesthetic feeling and the dressing choice. This study at first select clothing pictures conform to four aesthetic styles. Use all kinds of clothing pictures as the research material, explore the mental mechanism about the influence of external clothing evaluation and internal physical self satisfaction on the choice of clothing, and explore if aesthetic play the role of mediation. The research consist the following steps:At first we selected the clothe pictures for the experiment material of the following study. We compress Ding Yuehua’s word list about the aesthetic feeling and choose 80 pieces of clothe pictures from the Internet. We choose 36 students of the Southwest University, present 80 pictures to them in random order, and let them choose at least one word to describe how they feel. So we selected different kinds of clothe pictures in different kinds of aesthetic styles. We choose 5 as materials in following experiments. Second we use 2*2 two-factor mixed design to discussed the influence of dressing evaluation from others to the willing to choose some dressing. The experiment material is the pictures we have selected. The subjects are 40 students from Southwest University. At last we use 2*2*2 three-factor mixed design to discuss the relation between dressing evaluation from different kinds of sex, physical self satisfaction, aesthetic feeling and the willing to choose some dressing. The tool is the adolescent physical self scale(APS) compiled by Huang Xiting. The material is the pictures we have selected. The subjects are 116 students from Southwest University.Based on the analysis of experimental data, we draw the following conclusions:1)The dressing evaluation from others has a significant impact on the willing to choose a piece of clothe compared to the condition without other’s evaluation.2)The evaluators gender has a significant impact on the improve of aesthetic feeling and the willing to choose some dressing.3)The physical self satisfaction has a significant impact on the aesthetic feeling and the willing to choose some dressing.4)The dressing evaluation and the physical self satisfaction have significant impacts on the aesthetic feeling and the willing to choose some dressing, The significant of aesthetic feeling demand more conditions and than the willing to choose some dressing.5)The aesthetic feeling has a significant impact on the willing to choose some dressing. The dressing evaluation especially evaluation from the opposite sex can make up the short of the aesthetic feeling to improve the willing to choose some dressing.6)the physical self satisfaction, the aesthetic feeling and the willing to choose some dressing are closely related.7)Physical self satisfaction has a significant impact on the willing to choose some dressing through the aesthetic feeling.The results indicate that the explanation of the mate choosing in evolutionary psychology and the motivation of dressing about the origin of clothing both have their reasonability. The origin of clothing needs some aspects’ explanation. The role of aesthetic feeling in dressing choice is associated with emotional arousal and it can lead to dressing choice directly. The short of the aesthetic feeling can be make up by the evaluation. The improve of aesthetic feeling plays a role of intermediary between the evaluation from the opposite sex and the improve of the willing to choose some dressing.The dressing evaluation impact the willing to choose some dressing through the aesthetic feeling.The theoretical value of the study is to provide empirical basis for the mate choosing in evolutionary psychology and the motivation of dressing about the origin of dressing and enrich the research scope of the psychology of clothing. The study could provide the people in the garment industry and the designers with theoretical guidance in practice, provide the consumers with tips about dressing. It also can give some advice about the sales mode of clothe and can improve ourselves. We can choose types of dressing to meet the demand of ourselves or change ourselves to be fitted to some clothes to improve self-confidence. They both beneficial to bodymanagement and the improve of the satisfaction of physical self.