Table 2.
Associations between predictor variables and causal attributions; data are presented as standardized Betas and significance
Eating behavior attributions | Body weight attributions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Genetic | Environmental | Genetic | Environmental | |
Demographics | ||||
Age | −0.081 | −0.093 | −0.205 * | −0.222 ** |
Gender (Female) | 0.094 | −0.090 | 0.015 | −0.081 |
Race (White) | −0.096 | 0.125 | −0.037 | 0.054 |
Education (some college or more) | −0.019 | 0.094 | 0.049 | 0.047 |
Parental status (Parent) | −0.011 | −0.140 | 0.158 * | 0.005 |
Perceptions | ||||
Perception of being overweight (Yes) | −0.036 | 0.065 | −0.020 | 0.071 |
Perceived family history of overweight (Yes) | −0.161 | 0.076 | −0.138 | 0.071 |
Perception of overweight x Perceived family history interaction | 0.247 * | −0.085 | 0.252 * | −0.041 |
p<.05,
p<.01