TABLE 3.
REGRESSION OF BMI BY SEX, WAVES 1, AND 3: AMERICANS’ CHANGING LIVES, 1986–1994
| Independent Variables | Wave 1
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Wave 1 to Wave 3
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1
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Model 2
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Model 3
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Model 4
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| Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
| Religiosity | ||||||||
| Attendance, W1 | 0.25* (0.11) a | −0.13 (0.09) | 0.17 (0.11) | −0.09 (0.09) | −0.15 (0.08) | 0.02 (0.07) | −0.13 (0.07) | −0.01 (0.07) |
| Salience, W1 | 0.05 (0.20) | 0.13 (0.24) | 0.02 (0.20) | −0.17 (0.24) | 0.02 (0.15) | −0.21 (0.15) | 0.14 (0.14) | −0.17 (0.15) |
| Media practice, W1 | 0.05 (0.09) | 0.31*** (0.05) | 0.05 (0.09) | 0.20** (0.06) | 0.00 (0.04) | 0.03 (0.36) | 0.03 (0.04) | 0.03 (0.04) |
| Consolation, W1 | −0.19 (0.14) | −0.30* (0.12) | −0.14 (0.14) | −0.19 (0.12) | 0.03 (0.11) | −0.02 (0.08) | −0.04 (0.10) | −0.01 (0.07) |
| Religious affiliation | ||||||||
| Baptist | −0.50 (0.43) | 1.18** (.34) | −0.72 (0.48) | 0.71 (0.39) | 0.16 (0.25) | 0.17 (0.25) | 0.12 (0.24) | 0.01 (0.27) |
| Fundamentalist Protestant | −0.81 (0.52) | −0.08 (0.55) | −0.92 (0.49) | −0.56 (0.53) | 0.28 (0.34) | 0.50 (0.32) | 0.25 (0.31) | 0.18 (0.31) |
| Status resources and characteristics | ||||||||
| BMI, W1 | 0.96*** (0.03) | 0.88*** (0.02) | 0.98*** (0.03) | 0.90*** (0.02) | ||||
| Income | 0.14 (0.08) | −0.12 (0.07) | 0.02 (0.05) | 0.05 (0.04) | ||||
| Education | −0.25* (0.12) | −0.44*** (0.11) | 0.01 (0.07) | −0.07 (0.08) | ||||
| Black | 0.63 (0.35) | 2.02*** (0.36) | 0.20 (0.23) | 0.38 (0.29) | ||||
| Married, W1 | 0.60* (0.28) | 0.88* (0.38) | −0.03 (0.26) | −0.25 (0.22) | ||||
| Age | −0.01 (0.01) | 0.02 (0.01) | −0.05*** (0.01) | −0.06*** (0.01) | ||||
| Current smoker | −1.04** (0.29) | −0.96** (0.33) | −0.04 (0.24) | −0.32 (0.19) | ||||
| Physical activity | −0.23 (0.13) | −0.42** (0.15) | 0.28** (0.09) | 0.08 (0.08) | ||||
| South | 0.09 (0.38) | −0.65* (0.31) | −0.09 (0.16) | −0.04 (0.19) | ||||
| R2 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.71 | 0.71 | 0.74 | 0.74 |
| Number of cases | 1,339 | 2,185 | 1,336 | 2,183 | 917 | 1,592 | 916 | 1,590 |
a
Standard error in parentheses.
*
p < 0.05;
**
p < 0.01;
***
p < 0.001.