Motivation and Psychological Well-Being of Young Adults with Body Tattoos

Abstract

Body marking has been present since the history of mankind, playing diverse roles at various times. Evidences from archeological excavation date back to the 1200 B.C. Presently, tattoos are seen as a form of expression. Today, it is considered to be one of the most favorable fashion trends. People get tattoos for various reasons that include following the trend, to increase their motivation, to give importance to their psychological well-being. Many researches have tried to explore and find out the various characteristics of tattoos but there is insufficient research work and knowledge regarding the same in India. Reasons for the same may be due to more awareness about tattoos in other countries like Egypt, US, Japan in comparison to India. The various belief systems that are associated with the concept of tattoo considered to be a social taboo. Therefore, the present work titled “Motivation and Psychological Well-being among Young Adults with Body Tattoos” is a theoretical paper trying to highlight the increase in the levels of motivation and psychological well-being among the young adult population. Hypotheses of the present work are that a) body tattoos increase motivation, and b) body tattoos increase psychological well-being among young adults. For this paper, purposive sampling technique was used. Data was collected from 40 respondents who were between the age group of 18 to 25 years (young adults). Analysis of results shows that there is an increase in both motivation as well as psychological well-being young adults but, there is significantly more increase in motivation as compared to psychological well-being among the young adult population with body tattoos.