Table 2.

Cross-sectional correlations between biopsychosocial variables and body satisfaction at Times 1 (7 years) and 2 (8 years) for the total sample, boys, and girls

	Body satisfaction
	Total Sample		Boys		Girls
Biopsychosocial Variable	Time 1	Time 2	Time 1	Time 2	Time 1	Time 2
Biological variables
Child BMI a	0.02	− 0.09	− 0.06	− 0.16	0.05	− 0.06
Psychological variables
Child anxiety/depression a	− 0.06	− 0.24**	− 0.12	− 0.22*	− 0.02	− 0.24*
Child self esteem a	0.44**	0.36**	0.42**	0.20*	0.45**	0.46**
Child self-oriented perfectionism	− 0.01	0.01	− 0.04	− 0.03	− 0.12	0.02
Child socially prescribed perfectionism a	− 0.27**	− 0.14*	− 0.24**	− 0.04	− 0.29**	− 0.21*
Sociocultural variables
Mother body dissatisfaction	− 0.16**	− 0.16*	− 0.10	− 0.19	− 0.20*	− 0.14
Mother comments	− 0.06	− 0.06	− 0.00	0.00	− 0.09	− 0.13
Father body dissatisfaction	0.01	− 0.07	0.17	0.06	− 0.11	− 0.13
Father comments	0.06	− 0.09	0.10	− 0.14	0.03	− 0.08
Peer teasing a	− 0.19**	− 0.13	− 0.18*	0.12	− 0.20*	− 0.15
Child media exposure	− 0.11	− 0.03	0.01	0.01	− 0.20*	− 0.06

Note. ^a Spearman’s rho statistic used due to non-normal distribution of scores. *p < .05 (2- tailed), **p < .01 (2-tailed). Sample size differs for different variables due to missing data and ranges from N = 135–293 for the total sample, N = 56–126 for boys, N = 79–167 for girls