. 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 2.

Means and standard deviations for weight concerns and background variables for girls in the four sport participation groups incorporating girls’ sport participation at ages 5 and 7 years.

	Aesthetic sports age 5 AND 7 (N = 44)	Aesthetic sports age 5 OR 7 (N = 29)	Non-aesthetic sports age 5 and/or 7 (N = 83)	No sport ages 5 and 7 (N = 33)
Girls’ weight concerns¹	0.27 (1.5)^a	0.04 (1.4)^b	−0.31 (1.0)^c	−0.19 (1.5)^c
Background variables
Mothers’ weight concerns	0.05 (1.7)^a	−0.05 (1.6)^a	0.24 (1.9)^a	−0.14 (1.3)^a
Mothers’ years education	15.6 (2.3)^a	14.5 (2.2)^b	14.1 (2.2)^c	14.1 (2.1)^c
Family income	$35,000–50,000^a	$35, 000–50,000^b	$35,000–50,000^b	$35, 000–50,000^b
Girls’ Body Mass Index	17.0 (2.4)^a	16.5 (2.3)^a	16.5 (2.1)^a	16.9 (3.4)^a
Mothers’ Body Mass Index	26.1 (6.5)^a	27.2 (5.7)^a	26.0 (4.9)^a	27.8 (7.7)^a

Note: Different superscripts denote significant differences in means at p < .05. Girls’ and mothers’ weight concerns scores were standardized to a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1. Although the mean income was between $35,000 and $50,000 for all groups, families in the aesthetic sport group (at ages 5 AND 7) more frequently had incomes above $50,000 than the other three groups.

Mothers’ education and family income were entered as control variables when assessing differences in girls’ weight concerns.