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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Neurosci. 2013 Apr 1;127(3):387–399. doi: 10.1037/a0032026

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics (mean ± standard deviation).

Variable Sex Food Reinforcement Total

Male Female Low High
N 119 126 177 68 245
Age (years) 33.6 ± 10.3 35.3 ± 11.0 34.4 ± 10.5 34.5 ± 10.9 34.5 ± 10.6
BMI 31.0 ± 7.6 29.1 ± 7.6 29.3 ± 7.1* 31.9 ± 8.7* 30.1 ± 7.6
Restraint 6.5 ± 4.3* 8.7 ± 4.8* 8.3 ± 4.7* 6.0 ± 4.2* 7.7 ± 4.7
Disinhibition 5.9 ± 3.2 6.6 ± 3.6 6.2 ± 3.5 6.4 ± 3.2 6.3 ± 3.4
Hunger (TFEQ) 5.6 ± 3.3 5.1 ± 3.1 5.0 ± 3.2* 6.0 ± 3.3* 5.3 ± 3.2
Pmax food 85.6 ± 154.1* 38.0 ± 98.4* 14.9 ± 10.0* 181.6 ± 203.2* 61.2 ± 130.4
Pmax reading 80.4 ± 107.4 81.2 ± 119.0 63.5 ± 90.3* 126.0 ± 149.7* 80.8 ± 113.2
Education (n)
Some college or less 51 58 69 40 109
Completed college 68 68 108 28 136
Income** (%)
<$50,000 66.4 55.6 54.8* 76.5* 60.8
Minority (%) 27.7 26.1 21.4* 41.1* 27.0
*

p<0.05

**

One unreported value