Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients between the study variables for both samples. Correlations above the diagonal correspond to the Israeli sample (N = 114), while correlations below the diagonal correspond to the US sample (N = 81).

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Gender a		−0.21 *	0.01	0.18	0.11	0.06	0.25	0.18	0.09
2. Age (years)	−0.12		−0.15	−0.02	−0.03	−0.05	0.00	−0.16	0.05
3. Body mass index (kg/m2)	−0.08	−0.03		−0.04	−0.03	0.05	0.06	−0.01	−0.09
4. Higher education b	0.06	0.19	−0.20		−0.10	0.15	−0.05	0.09	0.05
5. Depression	−0.09	−0.12	0.11	0.13		0.26 **	0.80 **	0.32 **	0.35 **
6. Suicidality	−0.23 *	−0.13	0.00	0.12	0.58 **		0.32 *	0.10	0.22 *
7. Anxiety	0.08	−0.17	0.18	0.01	0.81 **	0.48 **		0.23	0.22
8. Body image	0.13	−0.28 *	0.18	−0.10	0.37 **	0.34 **	0.37 **		0.40 **
9. Emotional eating	0.21	−0.04	−0.03	0.24 *	0.43 **	0.08	0.41 **	0.26 *

Note:^a Male = 2, Female = 1. ^b Above high school = 1, High school or less = 0. BMI = Body mass index. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.