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. 2015 Apr 21;19(4):625–632. doi: 10.1017/S136898001500097X

Table 2.

Correlations between the variables under study

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Sex (1=male, 0=female) (1)
Age (2) 0·09**
BMI (3) 0·02 0·23**
Marital status (1=yes, 0=no) (4) 0·06* 0·34** 0·09**
Education (5) 0·10** −0·16** −0·16** −0·07*
Emotional eating (6) −0·24** −0·24** 0·13** −0·12** 0·08**
External eating (7) 0·01 −0·36** 0·01 −0·13** 0·16** 0·60**
Restrained eating (8) −0·26** 0·08** 0·16** 0·07* 0·06* 0·24** 0·05
Intention (9) −0·02 −0·25** 0·11** −0·12** −0·00 0·23** 0·26** 0·03
Health concerns (1=yes, 0=no) (10) −0·07** −0·09** −0·01 −0·01 0·07* 0·04 −0·00 0·16** 0·04
Appearance concerns (1=yes, 0=no) (11) −0·19** −0·12** −0·03 −0·05 0·12** 0·16** 0·06* 0·41** 0·09** 0·23**
Unhealthy snack habit strength (12) 0·06* −0·24** 0·09** −0·10** −0·02 0·38** 0·51** −0·15** 0·29** −0·11** –0·08**
Perceived health consequences (13) −0·06* 0·01 −0·07* 0·05 0·17** 0·04 0·03 0·22** 0·01 0·13** 0·24** −0·13**
Unhealthy snack intake (14) 0·08** −0·03 0·02 −0·01 0·01 0·15** 0·23** −0·08* 0·09** −0·07* −0·07* 0·22** 0·00
Fruit and vegetable intake (15) −0·12** 0·17** 0·08** 0·04 −0·09** 0·05 −0·07* 0·16** 0·09** 0·03 0·10** 0·00 0·07* −0·02

*P<0·05; **P<0·01.

Sex, marital status, health concerns and appearance concerns are dichotomous variables, all other variables are (treated as) continuous variables. Pearson product-moment correlations (r) are displayed for correlations between continuous variables, point-biserial correlations (r pb) are displayed for correlations between dichotomous and continuous variables, and phi coefficients (r φ) are displayed for correlations between two dichotomous variables.