Table 3.
Means (M) and Standard deviations (SD) of the Body Image States Scale (BISS) and the subscale negative affective states (NAS) of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for the experimental (N = 118) and the control condition (N = 112).
| Variable | Possible range | Time | Muslim women |
Christian women |
Atheist women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |||
| Experimental condition | (n = 34) | (n = 48) | (n = 36) | |||||
| BISS | 1–9 | Pre | 6.26a | 1.39 | 5.56c | 1.45 | 5.79 | 1.09 |
| 1–9 | Post | 5.97a | 1.76 | 5.3c | 1.60 | 5.80 | 1.17 | |
| NAS | 10–50 | Pre | 12.74 | 3.11 | 13.83 | 5.77 | 13.25 | 3.50 |
| 10–50 | Post | 13.00 | 3.80 | 14.40 | 6.43 | 12.92 | 3.22 | |
| Control conditiond | (n = 32) | (n = 42) | (n = 38) | |||||
| BISS | 1–9 | Pre | 5.43 | 1.91 | 6.05 | 1.17 | 5.71 | 1.38 |
| 1–9 | Post | 5.48 | 1.97 | 6.02 | 1.16 | 5.73 | 1.40 | |
| NAS | 10–50 | Pre | 14.75 | 4.45 | 12.93 | 3.03 | 13.76 | 4.01 |
| 10–50 | Post | 14.31 | 4.67 | 11.95 | 2.47 | 12.47 | 3.54 | |
∗∗p < 0.001; ∗p < 0.05. adiffer significantly from Christian women (p < 0.05). bdiffer significantly from atheist women (p < 0.05). cdiffer significantly from Muslim women (p < 0.05). dBody Image States Scale scores were not recorded for three Christian women and three atheist women in the control condition.