. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 26.

Published in final edited form as: Sex Roles. 2008 Sep 13;60(3-4):198–207. doi: 10.1007/s11199-008-9535-y

Table 1.

Gender differences in contingent self-esteem, weight/body shape concerns, drive for muscularity, and BMI.

	Women (n=212)		Men (n=147)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Contingent self-esteem	3.38	.54	3.11	.54
Weight/body shape concerns	3.69	1.77	1.40	1.36
Drive for muscularity	1.52	.53	2.46	.82
BMI	22.33	3.79	23.36	3.08

Contingent self-esteem scores range from 1 (not at all like me) to 5 (very much like me); weight/body shape concerns scores range from 0 (not at all) to 6 (extremely much); drive for muscularity scores range from 1 (never) to 6 (always)