. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Child Care Health Dev. 2016 Jan 28;42(3):370–374. doi: 10.1111/cch.12318

Table 2.

Regression Analyses Predicting Weight Perceptions From Parent and Child Characteristics

	Perception of Healthy Weight		Misperception
	Girl	Boy
Parent Age	−.02	.04	.08
Parent Sex (male)	Reference	Reference	Reference
Parent Sex (female)	.00	.05	.08
Child Age	−.01	−.03	.11^*
Child Sex (male)	Reference	Reference	Reference
Child Sex (female)	−.02	−.03	.05
Ethnicity (White)	Reference	Reference	Reference
Ethnicity (Black)	.22^**	.03	−.03
Ethnicity (Hispanic)	−.05	−.09	.00
Ethnicity (Other)	.07	.05	−.01
Family income	−.16^**	−.18^**	−.06
Parent BMI	.09^*	.10^*	.06
Child BMI-for-age	.15^**	.17^**	−.04

Note. N=453. Values are standardized beta coefficients from linear regression. BMI=Body Mass Index.

p <.05.

^**

p < .01.