Table 3 The correlations between Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) and the socio-demographic factors with women’s body image
From: The relationship between postmenopausal women’s body image and the severity of menopausal symptoms
Variables | Body image (four dimensions and total scores). | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Head & face | Upper limbs | Lower limbs | Overall | Total score | |
r | r | r | r | r | |
The severity of menopausal symptoms; Test: Pearson correlation coefficient. | |||||
Somatic | − 0.23*** | − 0.35*** | − 0.37*** | −0.41*** | −0.40*** |
Psychological | − 0.33*** | −0.46*** | − 0.40*** | − 0.47*** | − 0.49*** |
Urogenital | −0.30*** | − 0.21*** | − 0.20*** | − 0.27*** | −0.29*** |
Total score | − 0.36*** | −0.45*** | − 0.42*** | −0.49*** | −0.51*** |
The socio-demographic factors; Test: Spearman’s correlation coefficient. | |||||
Age | 0.05 | 0.05 | −0.05 | 0.11 | 0.09 |
Duration of menopause | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.05 |
Number of children | − 0.02 | −0.03 | − 0.14* | 0.04 | −0.03 |
Education | 0.17** | 0.21*** | 0.23*** | 0.13* | 0.20*** |
Education of Husband | 0.23*** | 0.27*** | 0.26*** | 0.19** | 0.26*** |
The adequacy of monthly household income | 0.27*** | 0.33*** | 0.29*** | 0.27*** | 0.32*** |