Acceptance of the Reflected Face in Connection With the Self-Esteem of the Face and Its Attractiveness

<p>The problem of accepting one's reflected appearance and its central component, the face, is not sufficiently considered in research, despite its relevance. The phenomenon of "taking your reflected face" is studied based on such tools as mirror and photography. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis: the level of positivity of self-assessments, attractiveness of the face can be predictors of the degree of acceptance of one's reflected face. Study participants: 86 people, aged 20 to 25 years (M<sub>Age</sub> = 23.0; SD= 2,0; 67% are women). Methods: 1) Ten-point scales for accepting one's reflected face (1) in the mirror and (2) in a photo; 2) Questionnaire: "Self-assessment of appearance" - a section of self-assessment of a face, created by V.A. Labunskaya; 3) Ten-point scale "Self-assessment of facial attractiveness", which is included in the questionnaire "Self-assessment of appearance". Mathematical procedures: rank transformation of variable values, Pearsonc<sup>2 </sup>test, crosstabulation, single-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test λ, correlation (Spearman), regression analysis (IBM SPPS Statistic 23.0). Results: there is no conjugation between the levels of assessment of the attractiveness of one's face (AsAf) and the degrees of acceptance of one's reflected face (ARf), but there is a moderate conjugation between the levels of self-esteem of the face (S-esF) and the degree of Arf. The set of independent predictor variables (S-esF, AsAf) does not have a significant impact on the degree of Arf.The hypothesis put forward does not have a clear confirmation. The results allow us to formulate an assumption about the autonomy of such phenomena as S-esF, AsAf and the degree of Arf.</p>