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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Psychol. 2015 Jun;20(6):721–729. doi: 10.1177/1359105315573448

Table 1.

Correlations among study variables (n = 619).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Chronic stress
2. Food cravings .24**
3. BMI .19** .18**
4. Age .14** .12** .21**
5. White −.24** −.27** −.17** −.05
6. Black .20** .28** .22** .13** −.73**
7. Male −.14** −.05 .03 −.02 .09* −.04

BMI = body mass index.

The following statistics were used: Pearson correlations for continuous variables, point-biserial correlations for a dichotomous and continuous variable, and phi coefficients for two dichotomous variables.

*

p < .05

**

p < .001.