Emotional Effect of Make Up on Senior Citizen of Taiwan

• Main Authors: Li-Nung Teng, 滕禮濃
• Other Authors: Hua-Yew Cheng, Ph.D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n6bmm7

碩士 === 東方設計大學 === 時尚美妝設計系 === 107 === In 2018, Taiwan Society had been into Ageing Society since 14.05% of population is elder people. Therefore, the community service for elder people is urgent. Make up is not just to make us to become beauty, it is also have mental effect. The Japan Shiseido company had established a Center to evaluate the benefit of Make Up on mental during 80s of last century. They found that make up activity had positive effect on the psychological and physiological effects on senior citizen. They defined it as cosmetic camouflage on elder people. There was few related study in Taiwan. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the emotional effect of make up on Taiwan senior citizen. There were 10 elder people of Nanzi District of Kaohsiung City, who age above 65, had volunteered to participated this study. They had been divided into 3 groups, and accepted the make up on particularly date. Each participant will had 4 times of make up’s experience during the study. After the each time of make up’s experience, the questions will be taken to evaluate the emotional effect of the participant. Results showed that the participants were looked forward to the make up’s experience. The main reasons for the elder people to look forward to the make up’s experience were “can be look beauty after make up’s experience”, “like the look after make up’s experience” and “to learn how to make up”. Each the above 3 reasons had been mentioned 4 times. On the other hands, the mood of the participants had been good after the make up’s experience. The main reason that the mood of the participants had been good was “be praised by the other people”, which had been mentioned totally 5 times. Study also showed that the senior citizen were like to interact with other people after the make up’s experience. The main reason was “be praised by the other people after the make up’s experience”, which had been totally mentioned 18 times. The second frequently reasons were “have the subject of talk with other people”. All the participants were responded that they were willing to participate the activity again. The main reasons were “can learn how to make up” and “will look beauty after the make up’s experience”, of which had been mentioned 9 times and 7 times, respectively. In conclusion, the study showed that the make up’s experience had positive effect on the emotion of senior citizen. Therefore, make up related activity was suggested to be frequently organized for the elder people. Keywords: make up, emotion effect, senior citizen, elder people