Table 2.

Frequent self-weighing (%) by socio-demographics, among non-overweight and overweight girls and boys

	Girls		Boys

	Non- overweight	Overweight	Non- overweight	Overweight

Characteristic	FW (N=123)	FW (N=87)	FW (N=102)	FW (N=73)
Socioeconomic Status
Low	11.2	12.7	11.6	12.5
Low-middle	16.9	19.5	11.1	14.9
Middle	15.7	15.1	17.5	12.9
Middle-high	12.6	19.6	13.6	6.6
High	11.1	9.5	15.1	17.2
p^†	0.35	0.35	0.46	0.53
Race/ethnicity
White	16.1	23.0^‡^a	14.5^a	9.6
Black or African American	11.1	11.5^b	13.9^a	15.8
Hispanic or Latino	10.3	6.4^b	4.6^b	8.5
Asian American	15.4	21.3^a	18.1^a	14.5
Mixed or other	15.7	19.7^a	14.8^a	15.9
p^†	0.33	<0.01	0.04	0.34

Frequent self-weighers (FW)=weekly or a few times per week or more.

^†

Chi-square (df=4); p-values represent within weight classification differences by socio-demographic characteristic

^‡

Lowercase superscript letters followed by differing letters in a column indicate significant differences in self-weighing frequency by race/ethnicity as determined by post-hoc contrast tests only when there was an overall statistical significance.