. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2017 May 5;50(8):893–905. doi: 10.1002/eat.22725

Table 3.

Relationship to the comparison target

	Close friend	Acquaintance	Stranger
Upward body comparison (n = 2,056)	622 (30.3%)	557 (27.1%)	872 (42.4%)
Downward body comparison (n = 1,338)	410 (30.6%)	352 (26.3%)	572 (42.8%)
Upward eating comparison (n = 1,067)	702 (65.8%)	236 (22.1%)	128 (12.0%)
Downward eating comparison (n = 857)	587 (68.5%)	135 (15.8%)	131 (15.3%)
Upward exercise comparison (n = 1,273)	485 (38.1%)	301 (23.6%)	487 (38.3%)
Downward exercise comparison (n = 352)	165 (46.9%)	81 (23.0%)	105 (29.8%)