. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 23.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Promot. 2013 Feb 11;27(6):370–377. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.120120-QUAN-57

Table 3.

Predicted probability of young adults' reporting disordered eating behaviors by significant other's dieting and encouragement to diet (mutually adjusted)^{^}

	Young Adult Males			Young Adult Females

	Unhealthy WCBs	Extreme WCBs	Binge eating	Unhealthy WCBs	Extreme WCBs	Binge eating
Significant other diets to lose weight
Not at all	32.6^a	9.2^a	14.9^a	58.2^a	23.3^a	20.2^a
A little	32.5^a	4.8^a	7.8^b	56.5^a	25.1^a	17.6^a
Somewhat	45.6^b	8.0^a	8.4^b	58.3^a	24.2^a	18.5^a
Very much	37.3^ab	11.7^a	12.4^ab	65.6^a	29.0^a	27.8^a
	P_trend=.208	P_trend=.401	P_trend=.597	P_trend=.286	P_trend=.373	P_trend=.149

Significant other encourages me to diet
Not at all	27.8 ^a	4.1^a	4.4 ^a	43.3 ^a	18.7 ^a	13.6 ^a
A little	30.6 ^ab	16.6^b	10.8 ^b	63.0 ^b	22.7 ^ab	22.2 ^b
Somewhat	41.6 ^bc	10.2^ab	13.9 ^b	61.4 ^b	27.9 ^ab	22.8 ^b
Very much	48.1 ^c	2.8^a	14.4 ^b	70.8 ^b	32.3 ^b	25.5 ^b
	P_trend=.003	P_trend=.463	P_trend=.022	P_trend<.001	P_trend=.006	P_trend=.015

Significant linear trends shown in bold

WCBs=weight control behaviors

^{^}

all models adjusted for BMI category, race (white/non-white) and marital status

^a,b,c

: within behaviors, bars that do not share a superscript letter differ at p<.05.