Table 5.
Partial correlations between time 1 biopsychosocial variables and time 2 child body satisfaction for total sample, boys, and girls
| T2 Body Satisfaction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total sample | Boys | Girls | |
| Biopsychosocial Variable | |||
| T1 Biological variables | |||
| Child BMI δ | − .13δ | − 0.11 | − 0.15 |
| T1 Psychological variables | |||
| Child anxiety/depression δ | − .13δ | − 0.15 | − 0.09 |
| Child self esteem δ | 0.14* | − 0.00 | 0.24** |
| Child self-oriented perfectionism | 0.05 | 0.18 | − 0.06 |
| Child socially prescribed perfectionism δ | − 0.01 | 0.09 | − 0.13 |
| T1 Sociocultural variables | |||
| Mother body dissatisfaction | − 0.17* | − 0.22* | − 0.12 |
| Mother comments | − 0.05 | − 0.02 | − 0.09 |
| Father body dissatisfaction | − 0.08 | − 0.09 | − 0.08 |
| Father comments | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
| Peer teasing a | − .15δ | − 0.11 | − 0.05 |
| Child media exposure | − 0.06 | 0.01 | − 0.11 |
Note. Body dissatisfaction at Time 1 was partialled in these analyses
a Spearman’s rho statistic used due to non-normal distribution of scores. δp < .10, *p < .05 (2- tailed), **p < .01 (2-tailed). Sample size differs for different variables due to missing data and ranges from N = 81–216 for the total sample, N = 36–91 for boys, N = 41–122 for girls