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Table 3.

Relationships between the dependent variable (eating disorder risk) and the independent variables among adolescent athletes

Variables	1	2	3	4
1. Eating disorder risk	-
2. Body satisfaction	0.0032^*	-
2. Body satisfaction	(Z = 2.95)^a	-
3. Sport type	< 0.0001^*	0.0141^*	-
3. Sport type	(Chi²_NW = 21.15)^b	(H = 8.52)^e	-
4. Level of competition	0.0704	0.2498	0.1273	-
4. Level of competition	(Chi² = 3.27)^c	(Z = -1.15)^a	(Chi²_NW = 4.12)^b	-
5. Training background	0.2676	0.7582	0.0010^*	0.0421^*
5. Training background	(Z = -1.11)^a	(r_s = -0.03)^d	(H = 13.77)^e	(Z = -2.03)^a

Note: ^aMann–Whitney U test; ^bChi²_NW test; ^cV-square test; ^dSpearman’s rank correlation coefficient; ^eKruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA by ranks; ^*p < .05, significantly different from ED+