between Perception, Appearance Satisfaction, and Happiness of Women Participating in Jewelry Therapy

Purpose: This study was conducted in order to examine the relations among the recognition, happiness and appearance satisfaction of jewelry therapy participant women and find out which structural effect appearance satisfaction as mediation effect has on feeling of happiness. Method: Study participants are 152 women in their 30s~ 60s purchased color jewelry at the jewelry shop-ping mall in Jongrogu, Republic of Korea and they were selected in a way of purposive sampling as the ones subject to the analysis of this study. Second, in order to analyze relationship which recognition and appearance satisfaction influence on the happiness, Multiple Regression Analysis is conducted. First, Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) is set in order to verify mediating effect of structural relations of each variables and appear-ance satisfaction variables and the assessment of model fitness and path coefficient between variables is con-ducted. Fifth, positive statistical analysis verifies at the p<.05 level. Results: First, in examining the result of multiple regression analysis in terms of the effect of participants’ recognition and appearance satisfaction to happiness, it is discovered that, to the happiness, physical recogni-tion, social recognition, educational recognition and appearance satisfaction are statistically significant but psychological recognition is not. Second, it is discovered that appearance satisfaction works as significant me-diation effect between the recognition and happiness. In other words, it is discovered that the recognition, an external variable, has a significant effect on appearance satisfaction, an internal variable. Conclusion: Through this study, we can see that the recognition of women participating in jewelry therapy has positive effect not only on appearance satisfaction but also happiness with appearance satisfaction as me-diation variable. That result of this study is significant in that it provides basic information of psychological health relations with which emotional response can be scientifically analyzed and utilized in the reality which lacks objective evaluation standard for jewelry therapy