Abstract
This study was designed to determine possible relationships between the dimensions of clothing interest and those of self-concept and self-esteem. A 33-item clothing interest measure, a 38 pairs of adjectives for measuring self-concept developed by Nagashima et al., and a 23-item for measuring self-esteem developed by Endo, administered to 251 university women, were factor analyzed separately in order to find out underlying dimensionality. Six dimensions were derived for clothing interest and self-concept and four for self-esteem.
Results of the canonical correlation analysis between the dimensions of the clothing interest and those of the self-concept showed that individuals having higher orientations toward “conservativeness in dress” tended to have lower “ego strength” and that those with high scores on the “clothing conformity” dimension were likely to be “extrovert.”
Analysis of the canonical correlation between the dimensions of the clothing interest and those of the self-esteem revealed that people who were less “concerned with personal appearance” tended to be “anxious in social settings” and that those who emphasize “conservativeness in dress” and high scores on the “sensitivity to evaluation by others” of the self-esteem dimension.
