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

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