Do you feel pressured to look a certain way in today's society?

Plastic surgeries, botox and lip injections are phenomena that are now longer just popular in Hollywood. More and more people feel the need to change their physical appearance and Userneeds has thus asked if our panel members feel pressured to look a certain way as well.

We are all exposed to models, clothing lines, make up and commercials that tell us we need better hair, cleaner skin or thinner thighs. Many would argue that this creates a constant pressure to look a certain way, but how many of Userneeds' panel members feel this pressure? We asked the question straight forward and between 500 and 2000 men and women from each country have answered.

It turns out that the majority of the Irish panel members feel pressured to look a certain way in today's society. 52 percent have thus answered "Yes, to some degree" or "Yes, absolutely". The same figure in Denmark is 27 percent, and based on this Quick Poll the Danish panel members are therefore the ones least affected by the pressure. In Sweden 33 percent feel pressured to look a certain way and in Finland and Norway it goes for respectively 34 and 37 percent.

Although approximately one third in the Nordic countries and 50 percent in Ireland feel pressured to look a certain way, fortunately there are also quite a few panel members that have chosen the options "No" and "No, not at all". This goes for 60 percent of the Danish and Finnish panel members and for 44 and 46 percent of the Swedish and Irish panel members. In Norway a bit more than half, that is 53 percent, state that they do not feel pressured to look a certain way in today's society.