Table 4. Summary of Hierarchical Regression Analyses Predicting Obesity-Specific Indicators.

zBMI

Step and predictor variables	R²	ΔR²	β	95% Confidence Interval
Step 1 (Caregiver variables)	0.09^*	0.09^*
BMI			0.16	0.00, 0.01
Ethnicity			0.07	-0.02, 0.04
Age			-0.11	0.00, 0.00
Socioeconomic Status			-0.19^*	-0.01, 0.00
Step 2	0.09	0.00
Parenting Stress			-0.03	0.00, 0.00
Self-Report Obesity-Specific HRQOL

Step 1 (Caregiver variables)	0.06	0.06
BMI			-0.17	-0.71, 0.07
Ethnicity			-0.11	-2.83, 0.85
Age			0.02	-0.04, 0.04
Socioeconomic Status			0.13	-0.09, 0.26
Step 2	0.09	0.03
Parenting Stress			-0.18	-0.22, 0.02
Parent-Proxy Obesity-Specific HRQOL

Step 1 (Caregiver variables)	0.08^*	0.08^*
BMI			-0.12	-0.53, 0.07
Ethnicity			-0.27^**	-3.34, -0.63
Age			0.02	-0.03, 0.03
Socioeconomic Status			0.06	-0.14, 0.14
Step 2	0.21^**	0.13^**
Parenting Stress			-0.36^**	-0.28, -0.10

Note. Only self-reported HRQOL data from youth 5-13 years were included in the regression analysis. This resulted in a sub-sample of 97.

^**

p < .01,

p < .05.