Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and inter-scale correlations between all variables included in the present study, reported separately for women (top diagonal) and men (bottom diagonal).
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) Body dissatisfaction/low body fata | .62⁎⁎ | .27⁎⁎ | .01 | .37⁎⁎ | .19⁎ | .32⁎⁎ | .10 | .39⁎⁎ | ||
(2) Drive for thinness/muscularitya | .42⁎⁎ | .34⁎⁎ | .04 | .41⁎⁎ | .34⁎⁎ | .31⁎⁎ | −.17⁎ | .12 | ||
(3) Perceived stress | .32⁎⁎ | .39⁎⁎ | .09 | .77⁎⁎ | .42⁎⁎ | .24⁎⁎ | −.21⁎⁎ | .05 | ||
(4) Stressful life events | .04 | .18⁎ | .14⁎ | .07 | .13⁎ | .03 | −.05 | −.03 | ||
(5) Trait anxiety | .31⁎⁎ | .41⁎⁎ | .79⁎⁎ | .12 | .36⁎⁎ | .35⁎⁎ | −.11 | .10 | ||
(6) COVID-19-related stress | .16⁎ | .46⁎⁎ | .39⁎⁎ | .11 | .33⁎⁎ | .38⁎⁎ | −.17⁎ | .01 | ||
(7) COVID-19-related anxiety | .22⁎ | .37⁎⁎ | .28⁎⁎ | .09 | .27⁎⁎ | .48⁎⁎ | .11 | .19⁎ | ||
(8) Age | .01 | −.33⁎⁎ | −.20⁎ | −.12⁎ | −.20⁎⁎ | −.16⁎ | −.02 | .18⁎ | ||
(9) Body mass index | .41⁎⁎ | −.17⁎ | .03 | .01 | .01 | −.08 | −.02 | .25⁎⁎ | ||
Women | M | 4.06 | 3.48 | 1.93 | 0.61 | 2.30 | 4.59 | 4.80 | 35.26 | 26.19 |
SD | 1.13 | 1.26 | 0.79 | 1.34 | 0.62 | 1.35 | 1.59 | 11.04 | 6.01 | |
Men | M | 3.40 | 3.14 | 1.76 | 0.86 | 2.21 | 4.21 | 4.40 | 33.23 | 26.52 |
SD | 1.14 | 1.10 | 0.67 | 1.58 | 0.56 | 1.38 | 1.78 | 11.58 | 5.74 | |
t | – | – | 2.82 | 1.88 | 1.66 | 3.17 | 2.70 | 2.02 | 0.64 | |
pb | – | – | .005 | .061 | .097 | .002 | .007 | .044 | .524 | |
Cohen's d | – | – | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.28 | 0.24 | 0.18 | 0.06 |
Note. Women n = 255, men n = 251.
Women completed the Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-3, whereas men completed the Low Body Fat and Muscularity subscales of the Male Body Attitudes Scale.
Only the gender difference in COVID-19-related stress reaches significance once a Bonferroni correction, such that p = (1 − α)k ≈ 1 − kα = α / k = 0.007, is applied.
p < .05.
p < .001.