Table 1.

Description of work, social circumstances, and social location input variables.

Variable	Description
Work Circumstances
Employment Status & Work Hours	Assessed with two survey items. The first asked participants to select their current work situation (Bauer, Hearst, Escoto, Berge, & Neumark-Sztainer, 2012), such as full-time work and stay-at-home caregiver (test-retest percent agreement = 93%). The second item, which was asked only among working participants, asked about the number of weekly hours they currently work for pay (test-retest correlation = 0.80). We combined the responses to create 5 categorizations of employment status and usual weekly hours worked following the U.S. Internal Revenue Service definition of full-time work (≥ 30 h per week(IRS, 2017)): Long full-time (reports full-time work and >40 h per week), Regular full-time (reports full-time work and 30–40 h per week), Part-time (reports part-time work), Caregivers (reports stay at home caregiver or not currently working for pay), and Unemployed.
Number of jobs	To assess the number of jobs a participant may need to juggle, we used an item that asked working participants to report the number of jobs they worked for pay outside of their home (response range = ‘0’ to ‘4 or more’ jobs; test-retest correlation = 0.66). Using these item responses and information from participants' current work situation, we created the following 3 categories: No job (assigned to those reporting a Caregiver or Unemployed employment status), 1 job (assigned to those reporting 1 job or those reporting long full-time, regular full-time, or part-time work and no job outside the home), and 2 or more jobs (assigned to those reporting at least 2 jobs).
Social Circumstances
Parent status	Reports having at least one child (test-retest correlations for number of children = 0.98) living in their home ≥ 50%
Partner status	Reports having a romantic significant other (test-retest percent agreement = 98%) and currently living with significant other (test-retest percent agreement = 97%)
Student status (current)	Assessed with an item asking participants to best describe their student status for the majority of the previous year (test-retest percent agreement = 95%) to capture time- and social related aspects to current study. To resolve small cell sizes, responses were categorized into: Not a student; Part-time student at a four-year, community, or technical college; Full-time student at a four-year, community, or technical college; and Graduate student (the graduate response did not differentiate full- versus part-time status).
Household Income	Participants reported their total household income before taxes in the past year and selected from 6 response options: < $20,000, $20,000-$34,999, $35,000-$49,999, $50,000-$74,999, $75,000-$99,999, and $100,000 or more (test-retest correlation = 0.94).
Perceived difficulty living on income	Measured with an adapted item asking the degree of difficulty participants currently experience living on their total household income (Price, Choi, & Vinokur, 2002). Participants selected from 4 response options: Not at all difficult, Somewhat difficult, Very difficult or can barely get by, Extremely difficult or impossible (test-retest correlation = 0.83).
Social Locations
Gender	Based on reports at EAT-I to two response options: Male or Female
Race/Ethnicity	Race/ethnicity was based on reports at EAT-I and responses were grouped into 5 categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic, Asian/Asian-American, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander or American Indian/Alaska Native or Two or more Races (this last category combined 3 responses to resolve small cell sizes).
US Nativity status	U.S. nativity was based on reports at EAT-I as either being born in the U.S. or outside the U.S.
Educational Attainment	Educational attainment was conceptualized as a crude marker of social class and was measured with the item asking the highest level of education completed (test-retest percent agreement = 97%). Responses were categorized to resolve small cell sizes into: High School degree/GED or less, Vocational/technical program or Associate degree, Bachelor degree, and Graduate/Professional degree.
Age	Age was dichotomized into 2 groups at the median: 25–31 years and 32–36 years.