ATTITUDES ON TATTOOS AND TATTOOED INDIVIDUALS
Keywords:
tattoos, attitudes toward tattoos, young.Abstract
Tattoos are increasingly common around us. Young
and adult wear tattoos in sight and people around me don't turn
their heads after tattooed people. The present study is an
exploratory attempt to identify the attitude of young people about
people with tattoos. With the help of a quantitative methodology
and a scale of attitudes we interviewed 113 respondents about
different aspects regarding tattoos.
One of the most interesting finding was that less than half of the
people who answered the questionnaire do not think that an
individual is more attractive if they are tattooed, which means
that tattoos are not a way to improve the image or attractiveness
of someone.
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