Good looks and better outlooks: does satisfaction with physical appearance associate with future expectations?

The present paper examines how satisfaction with one's physical appearance associates with hopeful feelings, as well as optimism.

This paper uses the Canadian General Social Survey of 2016 and multivariate regression analysis.

At constant levels of current socioeconomic attainment, perceived intergenerational social mobility and self-confidence, satisfaction with one's physical appearance is found to associate with a greater hopefulness and more optimistic expectations about the future.

The present paper is the first economic study of how physical appearance associates with hope and optimism.