Bramwell and Morland (2009) developed a new measure to describe genital appearance satisfaction (GAS) in women, and to explore the relationship of GAS to self-esteem, body satisfaction, and ‘appearance schemas’ (importance of general physical appearance). As part of that study, they carried out correlation analyses, and produced a table (p. 22) (Table 10.2).

Table 10.2 Correlation coefficients for appearance schemas, body satisfaction, self esteem and genital appearance satisfaction

a) Which relationship is the strongest? (Give name of both variables and the value of the correlation coefficient)

b) Which is the weakest correlation? (Give name of both variables and the value of the correlation coefficient)

c) Write a sentence explaining the relationship between self esteem and the GAS. Compare your results with ours at the end of the book

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Body Self esteem satisfaction. scale (SES) Genital appearance satisfaction scale (BSS) scale (GAS) -.64** .28"* -.55** .30** -.41** Appearance schemas Inventory .46** Body satisfaction scale Self esteem scale **p < .01 It is important to realise that in this study the GAS was reverse scored, i.e. high scores on the GAS mean participants were less satisfied with their genital appearance.