Table 2.

Linear regression examining demographic and SEP predictors of food choice motives in UK and US samples.

	UK sample (N = 4123)				US sample (N = 1897)
	Motives: health R2 = 0.08		Motives: weight R2 = 0.04		Motives: health R2 = 0.05		Motives: weight R2 = 0.03
	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	p
Gender	−0.16 (0.03)	<0.001*	−0.24 (0.03)	<0.001*	−0.14 (0.05)	0.003*	−0.14 (0.05)	0.002*
Ethnicity	0.11 (0.06)	0.051	0.20 (0.06)	0.721	0.06 (0.06)	0.296	0.08 (0.06)	0.181
Age	0.007 (0.001)	<0.001*	−0.01 (0.001)	0.984	0.01 (0.001)	<0.001*	0.002 (0.001)	0.182
BMI	−0.02 (0.003)	<0.001*	0.02 (0.003)	<0.001*	−0.01 (0.003)	<0.001*	0.01 (0.003)	<0.001*
Income	0.02 (0.01)	0.052	0.03 (0.01)	0.03*	−0.01 (0.02)	0.654	0.02 (0.02)	0.411
SSS	0.09 (0.01)	<0.001*	0.07 (0.01)	<0.001*	0.06 (0.01)	<0.001*	0.05 (0.02)	<0.001*
Education	0.22 (0.03)	<0.001*	0.03 (0.03)	0.314	0.17 (0.05)	0.001*	0.11 (0.07)	0.032

Gender reference category is females. Ethnicity reference category is white. Education reference category is lower education. Income ranges from 1–5, lowest to highest quartiles. Motives health and weight reference category is not rating as important. SSS is subjective social status.

*Indicates statistically significant (p < 0.05 for primary analyses using UK sample and <0.01 for secondary analyses using US sample).