Table 2.

Indirect effect of perceived overweight on stress‐induced overeating via weight stigma concerns (Study 1)

		Unstandardized coefficient	SE	P	Bootstrap 95% CI	Model R 2/proportion mediated (%)	Standardized coefficienta	SE	95% CI
Model 1 b	Path A	3.28	0.55	<0.001	2.19 to 4.36	–	0.50	0.08	0.33 to 0.67
	Path B	0.04	0.01	<0.001	0.03 to 0.05	–	0.29	0.04	0.20 to 0.38
	Indirect effect	0.13	0.03	–	0.08 to 0.20	31.8%	0.14	0.03	0.09 to 0.22
	Path C (total effect)	0.41	0.08	<0.001	0.25 to 0.57	0.166	0.45	0.09	0.27 to 0.64
	Path C' (direct effect)	0.28	0.08	<0.001	0.12 to 0.44	0.223	0.31	0.09	0.12 to 0.49
Model 2 c	Path A	2.66	0.51	<0.001	1.65 to 3.67	–	0.41	0.08	0.25 to 0.56
	Path B	0.03	0.01	<0.001	0.01 to 0.04	–	0.21	0.05	0.11 to 0.30
	Indirect effect	0.08	0.02	–	0.04 to 0.13	23.3%	0.08	0.03	0.04 to 0.14
	Path C (total effect)	0.33	0.08	<0.001	0.17 to 0.48	0.234	0.36	0.09	0.18 to 0.54
	Path C' (direct effect)	0.25	0.08	0.002	0.09 to 0.41	0.258	0.28	0.09	0.10 to 0.46

Indirect effect = effect of perceived overweight on stress‐induced overeating through weight stigma concerns; Path A = correlation between perceived overweight and weight stigma concerns; Path B = correlation between weight stigma concerns and stress‐induced overeating; Path C = effect of perceived overweight on stress‐induced overeating when weight stigma concerns are not present in the model; Path C' = correlation between perceived overweight and stress‐induced overeating after taking weight stigma concerns into account.

^aCalculated by repeating analysis of indirect effects on z scores for all continuous variables (age, BMI, neuroticism, perceived weight discrimination, and depression).

^bAdjusted for age, gender, ethnicity (white, nonwhite), income, education, chronic illness, and BMI.

^cAdjusted for variables listed for Model 1 plus neuroticism, perceived weight discrimination, and depression.