For Asdrúbal Castillo. Updated: 6 November 2018
Body modifications are changes certain people need to feel different, which will depend on the psychological profile of each individual; Psychology through different studies has determined that beyond people's desire to carry out a modification body of any kind, it is about the search for an identity, the liberation of existential conflicts, the desire to call the attention, disorientation, bad influences, the desire to experiment, the need to express something to the society in which you are it lives; The most common body modifications are tattoos and piercings; Carrying out this body modification can influence an individual's self-image and self-concept, since it refers to the interpretation of emotions and behaviors; For this reason, this research proposes the study of the psychological influence on body modification (Tattoo / piercing) on the self-concept of psychology students from the Bicentennial University of Aragua.
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Today globally speaking of body modification represents an extremely common theme and widely practiced by society, even though most people do not know what this concept really means, since when you speak and think about This term, the first thing that comes to the mind of the human being is that this is about modifications in the human body related with cosmetic surgeries, and it is not usual to think that this definition also refers to the change produced in the body through the use from tattoos, expansions, implants, scarifications and many other ways that exist to modify the body.
Body modifications are changes that certain people need to feel different, they are based on ancient practices that include everything from cuts to burns, are not something that has emerged in the 21st century but goes back many years ago, when Aboriginal populations around the world had not yet been invaded by the arrival of the colonizers and could enjoy their culture without being forbidden anything, and from that moment to the present, this practice has been ventured into all parts of the world, motivated by different religious beliefs, rituals, cultures, personal life stories, representative symbols, or simply for beauty and fashion, since nowadays, for example, many people get a tattoo or a piercing, since they consider that these modifications make see your most attractive image and in line with the latest trends of this bouquet. The reasons for performing body modifications are hundreds and will depend on the psychological profile of each individual.
The branch of psychology, through different studies, has determined that beyond people's desire for carrying out a body modification of any kind, motivated by the aforementioned, it is the search for an identity, liberation from existential conflicts, desire for attention, disorientation, and bad influences, the desire to experiment, the need to express something to the society in which you are it lives.
Body modifications such as tattoos and piercings represent an act primarily of sheer exhibitionism today. no longer has a religious or group connotationHowever, this is a fashion that can bring serious or undesirable consequences to its users, being the fashion of clothing, hairstyles, music or others, changed when the person so wishes, or their intellectual, emotional or spiritual evolution requires it, but the tattoo may be there a lifetime to remind the person who is now an adult, that this was a decision product of an impulse or of their own ignorance.
That is why carrying out this type of practice, possibly can influence an individual's self-image and self-concept, since this concept refers to the interpretation of emotions, behaviors, comparison of the same with the behavior of another, identification of similarities, among others, by For this reason, it is necessary to carry out an investigation that allows determining how much these body modifications influence or affect the self-knowledge of the people of any age, standing out mostly in the university stage, since it is at this stage where the individual has more freedom and desire to make any change in their body If you wish.
In this sense, in this research, the study of the psychological influence on body modification (tattoo and / or piercing) on the self-concept of the psychology students from the Bicentennial University of Aragua, in order to identify the relationships and consequences of this type of practice in the self-image of individuals and showing the changes and the great psychological influence that this brand for the individuals who make these modifications, positively and negatively affecting their social dynamics and personal.
The technique that was used to obtain the results was the creation by us of the modification questionnaire body / self-concept, which has 42 items, based on the statements regarding the study variables, whose response form is dichotomous (yes / no).
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The scores obtained in the application of the instruments were studied by applying the KR20 formula.
A quasi-experimental study was conducted to determine how much body modification, specifically tattoos and piercings, influences the self-concept of the students of the School of Psychology of the Bicentennial University of Aragua, in this quasi-experimental investigation developed an instrument for its application to determine whether or not there is some kind of influence of body modification on the self-concept of people, said test was applied to a population of 20 subjects with the presence of piercings and / or tattoos, the results of which reflected the following assertions:
Body modifications (tattoo or piercings) do not influence self-concept of the population studied as a whole.
- In the population studied, it was found that 70% of it does not work, and 30% does.
- 95% are single and only 5% are married.
- 80% of the population reflected that their body modifications have significant value in their lives, while 20% have no significant value in their lives.
