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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2017 Jun 23;50(8):942–951. doi: 10.1002/eat.22738

Table 4.

Scaled scores on individual subtests, grouped by executive functioning constructs and accompanying MANCOVA analysis, controlling for minority status and years of education.

OW-BED
M (SD)
NW-BED
M (SD)
OW-HC
M (SD)
NW-HC
M (SD)
F
df = 3, 124
Sig. ηp2

(n = 32) (n = 23) (n = 48) (n = 29)
Cognitive Flexibility
 DKEFS Trail-Making Number-Letter Switching 9.39 (3.35) 10.61 (2.37) 10.35 (2.63) 10.38 (1.95) 0.37 0.77 0.01
 DKEFS Verbal Fluency Category Switching 11.23 (3.52) 12.30 (3.36) 12.21 (3.56) 13.10 (4.00) 0.50 0.69 0.01
 DKEFS Design Fluency Switching 9.74 (3.07) 13.26 (3.45) 10.65 (2.99) 13.00 (3.12) 4.03 0.01 0.09
 NIH Toolbox Dimensional Change Cart Sort 89.58 (8.56) 95.24 (7.27) 89.64 (10.02) 92.47 (8.11) 1.38 0.25 0.03
Inhibitory Control
 DKEFS Color Word Interference Inhibition 9.19 (3.47) 11.83 (1.99) 9.65 (3.00) 10.69 (2.92) 1.56 0.20 0.04
 NIH Toolbox Flanker Inhibitory Control 88.9 (10.46) 99.35 (10.47) 88.67 (11.31) 91.64 (10.22) 4.05 0.01 0.09
Planning
 DKEFS Tower Achievement Score 9.52 (2.90) 10.52 (2.71) 9.69 (2.71) 12.97 (2.12) 1.11 0.35 0.03
 Rey Complex Figure Copy T-score 35.50 (34.8) 37.80 (35.0) 37.85 (35.67) 38.45 (34.68) 0.54 0.66 0.02
Psychomotor Performance
 DKEFS Trail-Making Motor Speed 10.10 (2.47) 11.78 (2.04) 10.21 (2.35) 11.45 (1.88) 4.16 0.01 0.09
 NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison 94.19 (20.8) 108.95 (18.28) 99.63 (20.35) 102.67 (21.36) 2.85 0.04 0.06
Working Memory
 NIH Toolbox List Sorting Working Memory 93.46 (13.02) 96.24 (11.16) 96.24 (12.39) 106.32 (13.98) 3.14 0.02 0.08
 NIH Toolbox Picture Sequence Memory 87.73 (19.11) 99.56 (19.61) 94.14 (17.02) 110.79 (18.99) 3.67 0.02 0.08

Note: F statistics are of overall group comparisons for each construct’s MANCOVA; α = .05. OW-BED = Overweight Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder; NW-BED = Normal-weight individuals with Binge Eating Disorder; OW-HC = Overweight Healthy Controls; NW-HC = Normal-weight Healthy Controls