Table 1.
Participant demographic and anthropometric characteristics.
| Total Sample (N = 288) |
OW / OB (n = 137) |
NW (n = 151) |
OW / OB vs. NW |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
χ2 or F value |
p-value | ||||
| Female, No. (%) | 190 (66.0) | 89 (65.0) | 101 (66.9) | 0.12 | 0.73 |
| Age, years (SD) | 21.9 (2.2) | 21.8 (2.2) | 21.9 (2.1) | 0.36 | 0.55 |
| Race, No. (%) | 15.9 | 0.007 | |||
| Caucasian | 220 (76.4) | 106 (77.4) | 114 (75.5) | 0.1 | 0.71 |
| Black/African American | 6 (2.1) | 6 (4.4) | 0 (0.0) | 6.8 | 0.009 |
| Asian | 24 (8.3) | 5 (3.6) | 19 (12.6) | 7.5 | 0.006 |
| Multi-Racial | 21 (7.3) | 10 (7.3) | 11 (7.3) | 0.0 | 1.00 |
| Other | 16 (5.6) | 10 (7.3) | 6 (4.0) | 1.5 | 0.22 |
| No Response | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.7) | 0.9 | 0.34 |
| Latino/Hispanic, No. (%) | 16 (5.6) | 9 (6.6) | 7 (4.6) | 0.5 | 0.47 |
| Marital Status, No. (%) | 3.5 | 0.32 | |||
| Single | 240 (83.3) | 112 (81.8) | 128 (84.8) | ||
| Married | 15 (5.2) | 7 (5.1) | 8 (5.3) | ||
| Living with partner | 28 (9.7) | 17 (12.4) | 11 (7.3) | ||
| Declined to answer | 5 (1.7) | 1 (0.7) | 4 (2.6) | ||
| Education, No. (%) | 6.4 | 0.10 | |||
| High School | 34 (11.8) | 17 (12.4) | 17 (11.3) | ||
| Some college | 110 (38.2) | 61 (44.5) | 49 (32.5) | ||
| College | 118 (41.0) | 46 (33.6) | 72 (47.7) | ||
| Graduate / professional Degree | 26 (9.0) | 13 (9.5) | 13 (8.6) | ||
| Weight, kg (SD) | 74.4 (16.8) | 86.3 (15.3) | 63.7 (9.0) | 228.0 | <.001* |
| BMI, kg/m2 (SD) | 25.9 (5.3) | 30.1 (4.7) | 22.1 (1.6) | 360.4 | <.001* |
*
Robust test statistic used to adjust for homogeneity of variance violation.