RESEARCH CAPSULE

Practical Research 2

Name: LACABA, MELANIE B.

Section: ABM 12- TM2

Title of your group’s research: “BAKIT DI KA CRUSH NG CRUSH MO?: EXTENT OF

COSMETIC USAGE IN RELATION TO SELF ESTEEMOF FEMALE STUDENT IN
OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY”

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Title of the Material/Literature: The Correlation Between Makeup Usage and Self-Esteem

Author of Material/Literature:
Reference (APA style):
Brinegar, K., & Weddle, E. (2014). The Correlation Between Makeup Usage and Self-
Esteem. The Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, United States of America.
http://vault.hanover.edu/~altermattw/courses/344/papers/2014/BrinegarWeddle.pdf

Synthesized Literature Review:

This study aims to examine the relationship between makeup usage and self-esteem.
Researchers predicted that subjects who had lower self-esteem would use more makeup more
frequently. To investigate this hypothesis subjects completed a self-esteem questionnaire
followed by a makeup questionnaire. While subjects were completing the questionnaires
researchers categorized the level of makeup the subjects were wearing. The data collected
showed a positive correlation between the subjects’ report of makeup that they were currently
wearing and the amount of makeup the researchers rated them as wearing. The results also
showed a positive correlation between the makeup that the subjects were currently wearing and
the level of physical self-esteem. This indicated that subjects with lower self-esteem were likely
to be wearing more makeup. There was no correlation between social self-esteem and makeup
usage, nor was there a correlation between other categories of makeup usage and self-esteem.
This suggests that the cause-effect relationship between makeup and self-esteem cannot be
determined and future research should be manipulated to determine this relationship.
 RESEARCH CAPSULE

Practical Research 2

Name: LACABA, MELANIE B.

Section: ABM 12- TM2

Title of your group’s research: “BAKIT DI KA CRUSH NG CRUSH MO?: EXTENT OF

COSMETIC USAGE IN RELATION TO SELF ESTEEMOF FEMALE STUDENT IN
OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY”

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Title of the Material/Literature: Facial Cosmetics and Attractiveness: Comparing the Effect
Sizes of Professionally-Applied Cosmetics and Identity

Author of Material/Literature:
Reference (APA style)
Jones, A. L., & Kramer, R. S. (2016). Facial cosmetics and attractiveness: Comparing the effect
sizes of professionally-applied cosmetics and identity. PloS one, 11(10), e0164218.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164218

Synthesized Literature Review:

In Western societies, women are more likely to engage in appearance modification,
especially through the use of facial cosmetics. Previous research has hinted that the effect is not
large, especially when compared to the variation in attractiveness observed between individuals
due to differences in identity. In order to build a fuller understanding of how cosmetics and
identity affect attractiveness, here we examine how professionally-applied cosmetics alter
attractiveness and compare this effect with the variation in attractiveness observed between
individuals. Study 2 replicated the results of the first study with a sample of 45 supermodels,
with the aim of examining the effect of cosmetics in a sample of faces with low variation in
attractiveness between individuals. Overall, we show that professionally-applied cosmetics
produce a larger effect than self-applied cosmetics. However, the effect of individual differences
in facial appearance is ultimately more important in perceptions of attractiveness.