Dec 03, 2023 11:00:00

Research shows that men are more likely to benefit from physical attractiveness than women

Sociologists from the University of Oslo in Norway and

the Polish Academy of Sciences jointly conducted a study to find out how physical attractiveness benefits people in life. This has been shown to have an impact on status. 'While women are generally thought to benefit more from being attractive than men, men actually derive more success in the workplace from physical attractiveness,' the study found. This possibility has been pointed out.

Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility - Gugushvili - Social Science Quarterly - Wiley Online Library
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13320

Attractiveness has a bigger impact on men's socioeconomic success than women's, study suggests
https://www.psypost.org/2023/11/attractiveness-has-a-bigger-impact-on-mens-socioeconomic-success-than-womens-study-suggests-214653

Alexi Gugushvili, professor of sociology at the University of Oslo, and Grzegorz Burczak from the Polish Academy of Sciences asked the question, ``Does appearance as a teenager influence future social status, career decisions, income, etc.?'' We conducted research on. The paper is published in the academic journal Social Science Quarterly . The research used data on 11,583 people from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (NLSAH), which conducts long-term longitudinal observations of American adolescents.

The researchers acknowledged that there are limitations to the data, such as the fact that some people are successful later than those in their 30s, and that there are unknown factors that may have influenced their success. also concluded that ``appearance characteristics influence future career choices and success in the workplace.'' A topic in sociology is ``intergenerational social mobility,'' which focuses on the degree of similarity in social status between parents and offspring. The external evaluation at the time of ``is a predictor of whether social mobility will occur 20 years later.''

The main research goal of this study was to determine whether men and women differ in the impact of physical attractiveness on social mobility.

A previous study published in 2022 found that 'physical attractiveness is more important to women because they invest more time and resources in improving their appearance and are more likely to use this in various aspects of their lives.' In many cases, it is thought that women benefit more from their physical attractiveness than men, such as the claim that 'they play a role that is important to them.'

However, in a study using the NLSAH that asked, ``Can evaluations of appearance at age 15 predict social mobility 20 years later?'' it was found that physically attractive women were not considered to be so. It was concluded that men were rated 'slightly more favorably' than women, while men were 'more significantly influenced' by physical attractiveness. The researchers found that ``men who are judged to be physically attractive are more mobile than average-looking men on three measures of social mobility: education, occupation, and income; There is a high possibility that they are getting it,” he concludes.

Gugushvili said, ``The common notion that physically attractive people have an advantage over others not only in love and marriage, but also in other important outcomes, We haven't found much research to show whether it really helps improve social mobility as well, mainly due to the effects of social mobility.The factors that promote social mobility are poorly understood even after many years of research. But this study shows that being physically attractive helps children get a better education, get a more prestigious job, and earn a higher income than their parents.' talks about the significance of In addition, past research has shown that physical attractiveness is easily used as a tool for social mobility in the United States, where social mobility is low due to large economic inequality. He says it would be interesting to research whether this is the case.