The relation between perception of the body and social anxiety in individuals that have aesthetic surgery

The ideal body form and beauty, which is one of the the outcomes of the eras, has achieved a certain result by creating new body perceptions on humans and by comparing it with body perception in the indiviual's mind. It explains how the body perception of indiviual is formed and what shapes it, what the concepts of anxiety and social anxiety are, their characteristic and how they are defined by various approaches, and however, related studies are also discussed. While the connections of the relationship between body perception and social anxiety are observed how the individual influences and in what situations, the contect and scope of the concept of social anxiety are explained. The similar development processes of the individual's perception of the body and the social anxiety they live in, and certain factors in the period in which they occur, are at the forefront. In this study, the relationship between the individuals who have social anxiety due to the distorted body perception is examined because the developments in aesthetic surgery are more accesible in human life. As a result of the research that examines body senses and social appearances according to gender, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the body perception and social appearance anxiety of men and women. It has been determined that rising body perception decreases the anxiety and avoidance scores in individuals undergoing reconstruction surgery.