How Beauty Impacts Life Satisfaction: Objective, Subjective, and Mediating Effects

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F26%3A00647097" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/26:00647097 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08035-6_12" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08035-6_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08035-6_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-032-08035-6_12</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Beauty Impacts Life Satisfaction: Objective, Subjective, and Mediating Effects
Original language description
This study examines the extent to which perceived attractiveness influences individual well-being. Specifically, it investigates whether subjective attractiveness (how attractive individuals consider themselves) or objective attractiveness (how attractive they are assessed by others) plays a greater role in determining life satisfaction. Using data from the Czech Republic, the findings indicate that only objectively assessed beauty is significantly associated with life satisfaction. Moreover, the mechanisms behind this relationship differ by gender. Among women, the effect of objective attractiveness is largely mediated through self-esteem, emotional stability, and marital status. Among men, however, these mediating factors play a smaller role, and the relationship between attractiveness and life satisfaction is driven primarily by the direct effect of objective beauty.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-09220S" target="_blank" >GA22-09220S: Finding Health and Happiness in the Post-COVID-19 world</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2026
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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