Table 3.
Descriptive statistics for demographic and psychosocial variables and eating behavior for the American participants in Study 2a (N = 2607) and Japanese participants in Study 2b (N = 315)
| MIDUS (Study 2a) | MIDJA (Study 2b) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| N | M (SD) | Use Food to cope r | N | M (SD) | HEI r | |
| Demographic | ||||||
| Age | 2607 | 52.15 (14.28) | −.08* | 315 | 58.80 (12.92) | .24* |
| Gender | 2607 | 1.53 (.50) | .21* | 315 | 1.52 (.50) | .21* |
| Education | 2604 | 5.06 (1.60) | −.05* | 314 | 4.40 (1.65) | −.04 |
| Marital status | 2607 | .65 (.48) | −.07* | 314 | .73 (.45) | .14* |
| Psychosocial Variables | ||||||
| Independent self-construal | 2588 | 5.32 (1.03) | −.10* | 312 | 4.69 (.66) | .02 |
| Interdependent self-construal | 2588 | 4.61 (1.12) | .08* | 311 | 4.80 (.62) | .16* |
| Autonomy | 2589 | 36.85 (6.93) | −.27* | 312 | 31.03 (5.28) | .07 |
| Positive Relations with Others | 2589 | 39.51 (7.15) | −.17* | 315 | 33.92 (5.43) | .21* |
| Eating Behavior | ||||||
| Fruit | – | – | – | 315 | 2.44 (.62) | .46* |
| Vegetable | – | – | – | 315 | 3.41 (.71) | .58* |
| Sugared beverages | – | – | – | 315 | 1.83 (.70) | −.45* |
| Non-meat protein | – | – | – | 315 | 4.03 (.90) | .65* |
| Fish | – | – | – | 315 | 3.37 (.87) | .56* |
| Beef or high fat meat | – | – | – | 313 | 2.81 (.88) | −.42* |
| Using food to cope | 2555 | 3.88 (1.94) | – | – | – | – |
Note. Gender (male = 1, female = 2); Marital status (not married = 0, married = 1); HEI = Healthy Eating Index;
*
a significant correlation