Three-way interaction between fathers’ perceptions of adolescents’ weight, interparental conflict, and adolescent gender predicting adolescents’ weight concerns.
Note. The three-way interaction between fathers’ perceptions of adolescents’ weight, gender, and interparental conflict was probed at one standard deviation above and below the mean of interparental conflict. Only the simple slope for girls with parents with low interparental conflict was statistically significant, indicating that on average for these girls, a one unit increase in fathers’ perceptions of their weight was associated with a 3.47 unit increase in weight concerns, controlling for girls’ prior level of weight concerns, adolescent age, body mass index, and mothers’ perceptions of adolescents’ weight.