Identify the EIGHT ‘body shape’ items/statements from the Body Shape Questionnaire: Social Psychology: The Influence of Self-Esteem through Body Image and Age Research Paper, LMU, Singapore

1. Identify the EIGHT ‘body shape’ items/statements from the Body Shape Questionnaire (see the ‘scoring instructions’ document to identify those EIGHT items).

2. Produce the mean score of the EIGHT items/statements so a higher sum score means a higher level of worry about body shape.

3. Identify the TEN ‘self-esteem’ items/statements from the Self-Esteem Scale (see the ‘scoring instructions’ document to identify those TEN items).

4. Reverse code FIVE of the ten items/statements (see the ‘scoring instructions’ document to see which ones need to be reverse coded).

5. Produce the mean of the TEN items/statements, the ones you just reverse coded and the ones you left the way they were so a higher mean score means higher ‘self-esteem’. (These first 5 steps should be reported under your ‘materials’ section when you describe the ‘body shape’ and ‘self-esteem’ scales)

6. Produce ‘Descriptive Statistics’ on mean ‘age’, ‘self-esteem’ and on mean ‘body shape’ scores.

7. Conduct the appropriate statistical test to investigate if ‘self-esteem’ is predicted by ‘age’ and ‘body shape’.

8. Produce the appropriate graph(s) that demonstrates this relationship – or lack of.