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. 2024 Dec 30;12:215. doi: 10.1186/s40337-024-01178-7

Table 1.

Summary of descriptive statistics for body satisfaction and biopsychosocial variables at Times 1 and 2 for the total sample

Time 1 Variable Mean (SD)/Median (IQR)
Time 1 Time 2
Body image outcome
 Child body satisfactiona 15.84 (2.44) 17.23 (2.34)

Biological variables

 Child BMI

16.53 (2.73) 16.92 (2.44)
Psychological variables
 Child anxiety/depressiona 48.06 (7.02) a 47.94 (6.15) a
 Child self-esteemb 4.00 (0.50) 4.00 (0.25)
 Child self-oriented perfectionism 10.35 (3.37) 9.64 (3.31)
 Child socially prescribed perfectionismb 7.00 (5.00) b 6.00 (4.00) b
Sociocultural variables
 Mother body dissatisfaction 69.89 (17.70) 70.07 (17.04)
 Mother comments 1.90 (0.59) 1.92 (0.58)
 Father body dissatisfaction 59.10 (14.74) 59.76 (16.54)
 Father comments 2.16 (0.63) 2.16 (0.65)
 Peer teasingb 5.00 (2.00)b 5.00 (2.00) b
 Child media exposurea 19.73 (8.49) a 21.83 (9.81) a

Note. SD = Standard deviation, IQR = Interquartile range, a = mean reported for untransformed variables, b = median reported due to non-normal distribution of variable