Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of study variables.
Total Sample | Men | Women | ||||||||||
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N | M | SD | N | M | SD | N | M | SD | d (sex) | rAGE | rSES | |
Extraversion | 665 | 3.41 | 0.53 | 322 | 3.35 | 0.53 | 343 | 3.46 | 0.52 | −0.19* | −.07 | −.01 |
Agreeableness | 665 | 3.83 | 0.40 | 322 | 3.73 | 0.39 | 343 | 3.93 | 0.38 | −0.53* | .01 | .00 |
Conscientiousness | 665 | 4.01 | 0.46 | 322 | 3.98 | 0.46 | 343 | 4.03 | 0.46 | −0.12* | −.01 | .19* |
Neuroticism | 665 | 2.58 | 0.56 | 322 | 2.55 | 0.52 | 343 | 2.62 | 0.59 | −0.12* | −.02 | −.17* |
Openness | 665 | 3.14 | 0.42 | 322 | 3.07 | 0.40 | 343 | 3.21 | 0.42 | −0.36* | .04 | .16* |
Healthy foods | 665 | −0.02 | 0.89 | 322 | −0.14 | 0.88 | 343 | 0.10 | 0.88 | −0.28* | .11* | .24* |
Unhealthy foods | 665 | 0.01 | 0.90 | 322 | 0.16 | 0.95 | 343 | −0.14 | 0.82 | 0.34* | −.09* | −.12* |
Self-rated health | 487 | 3.29 | 0.94 | 227 | 3.17 | 0.98 | 260 | 3.40 | 0.89 | −0.24* | .06 | .24* |
BMI | 493 | 28.58 | 6.39 | 237 | 29.91 | 5.76 | 256 | 27.34 | 6.70 | 0.41* | −.03 | −.20* |
Type II Diabetes | 486 | 0.19 | 0.39 | 227 | 0.19 | 0.40 | 259 | 0.18 | 0.38 | 0.04 | −.01 | −.13* |
Income | 415 | 3.69 | 1.04 | 206 | 3.96 | 1.00 | 209 | 3.43 | 1.00 | 0.53* | .17* | .86* |
Education | 663 | 7.00 | 1.73 | 320 | 6.93 | 1.79 | 343 | 7.07 | 1.67 | −0.08 | .17* | .79* |
Age at diet assessment | 665 | 44.09 | 1.97 | 322 | 44.12 | 1.88 | 343 | 44.06 | 2.04 | 0.03 | - | .23* |
SES | 414 | 0.20 | 0.91 | 205 | 0.34 | 0.93 | 209 | 0.06 | 0.86 | 0.31* | .23* | - |
Note:
p < .05. N = total number of non-missing responses, M = mean, SD = standard deviation. Cohen’s d is the effect size presented, with positive numbers indicating that men have higher responses; Welch’s t-tests were used to estimate significance. rAGE is the correlation with age at the time of the clinic assessment; rSES is the correlation with the composite SES variable.