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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 Jun;14(6):1073–1084. doi: 10.1038/oby.2006.123

Table 3.

Psychosocial differences among under-, plausible, and over-reporters

	Under	Plausible	Over
Social desirability: CMAS, range 1 to 2	1.7 ± 0.3	1.7 ± 0.2	1.6 ± 0.3
Weight concern: WCS, range 1 to 5	1.0 ± 0.7^a	0.6 ± 0.6^b	0.5 ± 0.5^b
Dietary restraint: DEBQ, range 1 to 5	2.1 ± 0.9^a	1.7 ± 0.7^b	1.5 ± 0.7^b
Disinhibition: DEBQ, range 1 to 5	1.9 ± 0.6	2.0 ± 0.6	2.0 ± 0.5
Perceived restriction by mother: CFQ, range 1-5	2.2 ± 0.5	2.2 ± 0.5	2.0 ± 0.5

Values are mean ± SD. Different superscript letters indicate significant differences among reporting classifications at p < 0.05 in the Tukey comparison. CMAS, Childhood Manifest Anxiety Scale; WCS, Weight Concerns Scale; DEBQ, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire; CFQ, Child Feeding Questionnaire.