미용요법이 중년여성의 우울증 및 자아존중감에 미치는 영향

The Effect of Beauty Therapy on Depression and Self-Respect in Middle-Aged Women

The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of beauty therapy that has effects on depression and self-respect and to verify the effects of beauty therapy. This study aims to provide a theoretical and empirical basis regarding beauty therapy field to deal with the problems of depression and self-respect of middle-aged women that has emerged as severe social problems in Korea. This study analysed the data by deploying SPSS for Windows 12 to test a performance of the Frequency Analysis, Cronbach's alpha reliability test and Factor Analysis, Varimax Rotation, Repeated Anova, Dunnett Test. The results of changes in depression and self-respect before and after the therapy revealed that the average of depression declined from 24.33 to 10.87 and the average of self-respect rose from 23.67 to 32.73. The implications shows that the program has positive influence on changes of depression and self-respect of middle-aged women.