The demographics of mate value and self-esteem

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The Mate Value Scale (2014, methodology): “took the approach initially offered by Brase and Guy (2004) in not pre-specifying the individual components and instead asked participants to make more holistic judgments.”
Jealousy mediates the relationship between attractiveness comparison and females' indirect aggression (2012, background): “Relational victimization is known to relate to both lower self-esteem (Prinstein, Boergers, & Vernberg, 2001) and depression (Linder et al., 2002), both of which are indicative of reduced perceptions of own mate value (Brase & Guy, 2004; Kirsner, Figueredo, & Jacobs, 2003).”
Viewing attractive or unattractive same-sex individuals changes self-rated attractiveness and face preferences in women (2006, unknown): “Indeed, individuals who consider themselves to be attractive as partners do indeed have higher levels of self-esteem than those who think themselves less attractive as partners (Brase & Guy 2004).”
Components of self-perceived mate value. (2008, background): “As has been suggested by others (e.g., Brase & Guy, 2004), mate value is a multi-faceted concept that encompasses more than a female’s beauty or a male’s resources.”