. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 5.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2002 Apr;31(3):312–317. doi: 10.1002/eat.10043

Table 1.

Means and standard deviations for weight concerns and background variables for girls who participated in aesthetic, non-aesthetic, and no sports at ages 5 or 7 years

Girls age 5	Aesthetic sports (N = 67)	Non-aesthetic sports (N = 21)	No sport (N = 109)
Girls’ weight concerns¹	0.29 (1.4)^a	−0.64 (1.0)^b	−0.05 (1.5)^b
Background variables
Mothers’ weight concerns	0.08 (1.7)^a	−0.64 (2.0)^a	0.08 (1.6)^a
Mothers’ years education	15.3 (2.2)^a	14.2 (2.5)^b	14.1 (2.1)^b
Family income	$35,000–50,000^a	$20, 000–35,000^a	$20, 000–35,000^a
Girls’ Body Mass Index	16.1 (1.7)^a	16.1 (1.4)^a	15.8 (1.7)^a
Mothers’ Body Mass Index	25.5 (6.2)^a	26.3 (5.0)^a	26.9 (6.1)^a
Girls age 7	Aesthetic sports (N = 107)	Non-aesthetic sports (N = 36)	No sport (N = 49)

Girls’ weight concerns¹	0.15 (1.5)^a	−0.32 (1.1)^b	−0.10 (1.5)^b
Background variables
Mothers’ weight concerns	0.00 (1.6)^a	0.32 (1.9)^a	−0.23 (1.4)^a
Mothers’ education	14.9 (2.3)^a	14.3 (2.0)^b	14.2 (2.2)^b
Family income	$35,000–50,000^a	$35, 000–50,000^a	$35,000–50,000^a
Girls’ Body Mass Index	16.8 (2.3)^a	16.1 (2.0)^a	16.9 (3.1)^a
Mothers’ Body Mass Index	27.0 (6.1)^a	25.9 (5.6)^a	27.3 (6.8)^a

Note: Different superscripts denote significant differences in means p < .05. Girls’ and mothers’ weight concerns scores were standardized to a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.

Mothers’ education was entered as a control variable when assessing differences in girls’ weight concerns.