The Desire for Being Liked and the Fear of Negative Evaluation in Rhinoplasty Patients.

[OBJECTIVE] The study was conducted to determine patients' desire for being liked and the fear of negative evaluation before and after surgery.

[MATERIALS AND METHOD] The study was conducted quasi-experimentally using a one-group pretest-posttest (sixth month) design. The study population consisted of rhinoplasty patients hospitalized in the ear, nose, and throat service. The study was completed with 60 people. Participant information form, the desire for being liked scale, and the brief fear of negative evaluation scale were used as data collection tools. The data of the study were collected face-to-face between November 15, 2021, and March 15, 2023.

[FINDINGS] It was determined that the mean scores of the desire for being liked were 19.43 ± 7.44 in the pretest and 12.15 ± 4.76 in the posttest, and the difference between the measurements was highly significant. Furthermore, it was determined that the mean score of fear of negative evaluation was 27.78 ± 9.81 in the pretest and 17.72 ± 6.91 in the posttest, and the difference between the measurements was highly significant. It was observed that there was a high, statistically significant, and positive relationship between the pretest and posttest fear of negative evaluation and desire for being liked scores.

[CONCLUSION] Patients' desire for being liked and fear of negative evaluation, which were high before surgery, decreased significantly six months after surgery.

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