Table 1.
Associations between individual characteristics and weight control efforts among obese workers.
| Variables | Categories | Total (N = 484) |
Weight control efforts |
χ2 | p | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (n = 177) | Yes (n = 307) | ||||||||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||||||
| Gender | male | 318 | (65.7) | 117 | (36.8) | 201 | (63.2) | 0.020 | .485 |
| female | 166 | (34.3) | 60 | (36.1) | 106 | (63.9) | |||
| Age | <30 | 40 | (8.3) | 13 | (32.5) | 27 | (67.5) | 5.377 | .251 |
| 30–39 | 141 | (29.1) | 59 | (41.8) | 82 | (58.2) | |||
| 40–49 | 159 | (32.9) | 56 | (35.2) | 103 | (64.8) | |||
| 50–59 | 104 | (21.5) | 31 | (29.8) | 73 | (70.2) | |||
| ≥60 | 40 | (8.3) | 18 | (45.0) | 22 | (55.0) | |||
| Education | ≤ middle school | 61 | (12.6) | 27 | (44.3) | 34 | (55.7) | 5.366 | .068 |
| high school | 202 | (41.7) | 81 | (40.1) | 121 | (59.9) | |||
| ≥ college | 221 | (45.7) | 69 | (31.2) | 152 | (68.8) | |||
| Monthly income (million KRW) | <1 | 50 | (10.3) | 22 | (44.0) | 28 | (56.0) | 7.549 | .056 |
| 1–1.99 | 164 | (33.9) | 68 | (41.5) | 96 | (58.5) | |||
| 2–2.99 | 139 | (28.7) | 51 | (36.7) | 88 | (63.3) | |||
| ≥3 | 131 | (27.1) | 36 | (27.5) | 95 | (72.5) | |||
| Smoking | non-smoker | 335 | (69.2) | 120 | (35.8) | 215 | (64.2) | 0.263 | .339 |
| smoker | 149 | (30.8) | 57 | (38.3) | 92 | (61.7) | |||
| Alcohol consumption (frequency) | none | 101 | (20.9) | 38 | (37.6) | 63 | (62.4) | 1.285 | .526 |
| ≤ once per week | 256 | (52.9) | 88 | (34.4) | 168 | (65.6) | |||
| ≥ twice per week | 127 | (26.2) | 51 | (40.2) | 76 | (59.8) | |||
| Self-rated health | not good | 214 | (44.2) | 84 | (39.3) | 130 | (60.7) | 1.190 | .160 |
| good | 270 | (55.8) | 93 | (34.4) | 177 | (65.6) | |||