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http://dx.doi.org/10.14695/KJSOS.2015.18.4.109

The Effect of Legitimacy and Fashionability on Females' Control over their Boyfriends' Fashion Style  

Sung, Youngshin (Department of Psychology, Korea University)
Kang, Jungsuk (Department of Psychology, Chonbuk National University)
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Science of Emotion and Sensibility / v.18, no.4, 2015 , pp. 109-118 More about this Journal
Abstract
People tend to perceive their loved others (e.g., children, spouse, romantic partner) as their extended selves and then control over the loved others' fashion style corresponding to their self-concept. The study conceptually suggested that people's perceptions on legitimacy to interfere the others and their own fashionability would separately or interactively influence their control over the loved others' fashion style. To investigate the suggestions, an experiment with female participants in their 20's was conducted by using a scenario. The results indicated that participants' perception of legitimacy to interfere their boyfriends or their own fashionability did not have a separate effect on control over their boyfriends' fashion style. However, the legitimacy and the fashionability did have an interactive effect on the control. In particular, for high legitimacy groups, there was no difference in the control between low and high fashionability groups. For low legitimacy groups, the control was stronger in high fashionability group than in low fashionability group.
Keywords
Fashion; Interpersonal Control; Legitimacy; Fashionability; Romantic Relationship; Extended Self;
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