Table 3.
Pearson correlations for the psychometric tasks. The last two columns show the factor loadings on BPSS-M and each of the subtests of the SATAQ and DMS for the two PCs from the principal components analysis.
| STQ Med | STQ Peer |
BPSS-M | STQ Fat | STQ Fam | DMS Beh |
STQ Musc | DMS Att |
PC1 | PC2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STQ Med | – | 0.83 | 0.15 | |||||||
| STQ Peer | 0.64*** | – | 0.81 | 0.25 | ||||||
| BPSS-M | 0.52*** | 0.50*** | – | 0.77 | –0.05 | |||||
| STQ Fat | 0.59*** | 0.58*** | 0.44** | – | 0.72 | 0.4 | ||||
| STQ Fam | 0.37** | 0.34* | 0.40** | 0.18 | – | 0.62 | –0.54 | |||
| DMS Beh | 0.15 | 0.23 | -0.01 | 0.27 | -0.34* | – | 0.04 | 0.89 | ||
| STQ Musc | 0.25 | 0.35* | 0.06 | 0.42** | -0.25 | 0.74*** | – | 0.19 | 0.86 | |
| DMS Att | 0.26 | 0.35* | 0.20 | 0.30* | -0.29 | 0.64*** | 0.60*** | – | 0.20 | 0.80 |
| DMS Totl | 0.23 | 0.32* | 0.11 | 0.31* | -0.33* | 0.91*** | 0.74*** | 0.90*** | – | – |
* = p < .05, ** = p < .01, *** = p < .001.
NB: STQ Fat, STQ Body Fat; STQ Musc, STQ Muscular; STQ Fam, STQ Family pressure; STQ Peer, STQ Peer pressure; STQ Med, STQ Media pressure; DMS Att, DMS Attitudes; DMS Beh, DMS Behaviors; DMS Totl, DMS Total.