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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Jan 29;68(5):791–798. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.004

Table 2.

Estimated odds ratios for the associations between profiles of violence in childhood from parents and adult obesity.

Model 1a
 Model 2b
OR 95% CI p value OR 95% CI p value
Reference group
Neither physical nor psychological violence 1.00 1.00
One type of violence only (physical or psychological)
Rarely one type only 1.03 .71–1.49 .888 1.06 .72–1.59 .754
Frequently one type only 1.02 .60–1.75 .931 1.07 .61–1.88 .820
Both types of violence (physical and psychological)
Rarely both types 1.28 .88–1.86 .196 1.30 .88–1.92 .180
Rarely one type + frequently one type 1.65 1.11–2.44 .013 1.44 .95–2.19 .083
Frequently both types 1.41 1.00–2.00 .049 1.30 .90–1.87 .158
Use of food in response to stress 2.14 1.88–2.45 .000
Constant 1.00 1.00–1.00 .998 .29 .12–.66 .004
Valid N 1543 1543

Notes: Data are from a subsample of main respondents in the 1995–2005 National Survey of Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS; refer to note in Table 1 for more information about the analytic sample). All models included as covariates measures of parents’ education, childhood family structure, receipt of welfare in childhood, lifetime history of sexual assault, respondents’ household income in adulthood, respondents’ marital status, respondents’ race/ethnicity, respondents’ education, respondents’ age in adulthood, and respondents’ gender.

a

This model evaluated Hypothesis 1, which posited linkages between profiles of childhood family violence and greater odds of adult obesity.

b

This model evaluated Hypothesis 3, which posited that greater use of food in response to stress would mediate linkages between profiles of childhood family violence and greater odds of adult obesity. (For results regarding Hypothesis 2, refer to Table 3.).