Table 2.

Coefficients from Ordered Logistic Regression Models Predicting whether an Adolescent has a Higher Weight Perception: Analyses using the Full Sample (Models 1-3), the Sample of Girls (Model 4) and the Sample of Boys (Model 5)

	Full Samplea			Girlsb	Boysc
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
BMI z-score	1.61 **	1.78 **	1.66 **	1.90 **	1.53 **
	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.07)	(0.07)
Male=1	−1.17 **	−1.07 **	−1.18 **
	(0.07)	(0.08)	(0.07)
African American	−0.44 **	−0.47 **	−0.29 **	−0.46 **	−0.20 **
	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.11)	(0.09)
Mexican	−0.25 **	−0.25 **	−0.29 *	−0.47	−0.15
	(0.10)	(0.10)	(0.13)	(0.20)	(0.16)
Other Latino	−0.18	−0.19	−0.16	−0.28	−0.04
	(0.12)	(0.13)	(0.13)	(0.15)	(0.19)
Asian	−0.09	−0.07	−0.07	−0.05	−0.18
	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.22)	(0.19)
Native American	−0.43	−0.43	−0.34	−0.84	−0.33
	(0.24)	(0.26)	(0.29)	(0.49)	(0.36)
Male*BMI		−0.28 **
		(0.06)
African-American*BMI			−0.30 **	−0.24 **	−0.38 **
			(0.07)	(0.09)	(0.09)
Mexican*BMI			0.09	0.31	−0.09
			(0.14)	(0.18)	(0.15)
Other Latino*BMI			−0.05	−0.10	−0.01
			(0.10)	(0.19)	(0.14)
Asian*BMI			−0.05	−0.41	0.18
			(0.14)	(0.23)	(0.17)
Native American*BMI			−0.14	0.45	−0.30
			(0.16)	(0.33)	(0.16)
Age	0.08 **	0.08 **	0.08 **	0.21 **	−0.28 **
	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)
Two Obese Parents	0.37 **	0.37 *	0.35 **	0.05	0.61 **
	(0.13)	(0.14)	(0.13)	(0.21)	(0.17)
Only Mom Obese	0.20 *	0.19	0.20 *	0.07	0.30 *
	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.14)	(0.12)
Only Dad Obese	0.15	0.16	0.15	0.09	0.20
	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.18)	(0.21)
Athlete	−0.10	−0.11 *	−0.11 *	0.04	−0.23
	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.06)	(0.08)	(0.08)
Parents’ Education	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	−0.03
	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)
Family Income	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02
	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.03)
U.S. born=1	−0.41 **	−0.43 **	−0.40 **	−0.20	−0.61 **
	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.13)	(0.20)	(0.18)
N	12,789	12,789	12,789	6,177	6,612

Source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Waves 1 and 2.

Note: Standard errors in parentheses; Two-tailed significance tests:

^*significant at 5%;

^**significant at 1%

^aAll models are estimated from the data for the full sample of adolescents. Model 1 is the additive model. Model 2 adds an interaction between BMI z-scores and sex. Model 3 adds an interaction between BMI z-scores and race/ethnicity.

^bThis model, Model 4, is only estimated for the sample of girls and includes an interaction between BMI z-scores and race/ethnicity.

^cThis model, Model 5, is only estimated for the sample of boys and includes an interaction between BMI z-scores and race/ethnicity.