Effect of curable clothing on self-objectified depressive symptoms in professional women
Authors: Mu Zexu 
Published: March 2023

Background

Women tend to evaluate and define themselves from people’s judgments about their appearance, which leads to depression symptoms of women in the workplace, specifically manifested as anxiety about their appearance, anxiety about safety, social disorder, cognitive disorder, emotional disorder, etc. The intervention principle of curative clothing is that women’s self-emotion is interpreted in the visual and tactile aspects of clothing, and depressed women are always aware of their existence and free will, and have a sense of spiritual satisfaction, so as to achieve the effect of intervention in depressive symptoms. The intervention mechanism of healing clothing is to induce the desire for self-protection, self-respect emotion and body image satisfaction of women in the workplace.

Subjects and Methods

The subjects of this study are 120 female patients with depression aged from 16 to 60 years old. The research method is mainly to carry out group intervention treatment. The patients were divided into two groups on average. The first group was conventional psychiatric care for depression and was set as the control group. The second group was set as the experimental group. On the basis of conventional treatment, the dressing of patients was standardized, and healing clothes were introduced into the intervention. The intervention last 4 weeks, and then the patients were observed by OBCS (The Objectified Body Consciousness Scale) and EMA (Ecological Momentary Assessment) dynamic test. Finally, the scale scores and EMA dynamic test results of the two groups of patients were analyzed through SPSS25.0. The experimental data is shown in Figure 1.Table 1.

OBCS score of two groups of patients

GroupingAge spanOBCStPControl group20.33±2.5240.10±4.60–17.340.00Experimental group20.04±2.1737.00±5.90–13.690.00

Results

The experimental results showed that the average OBCS score of patients in the control group was 40.1±4.6 points, and the average OBCS score of patients in the experimental group was 37±5.9 points. In the EMA assessment, the level of self-objectification of the patients in the experimental group and the control group decreased during the intervention period, but compared with the control group, the decline trend of the experimental group was more obvious.

Conclusions

According to the data comparison of the intervention results, the treatment measures of the aty group reduced the objectification level of female patients with depression. At the same time, the EMA evaluation results showed that the curative clothing intervention made female patients pay more attention to their own state, and the healing material texture of the clothing provided positive psychological hints for patients, effectively reducing the non-suicidal self-injury behavior of patients.

Acknowledgements

The research is supported by: Heilongjiang Higher Education Teaching Reform Project, Project Name: Innovation Research on the integration of red culture resources into art design curriculum model in the big data era. Project Code: SJGY20210960.