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. 2020 Dec 14;46(4):443–453. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa121

Table II.

Positive Affect (Happy) and Interactions With z-BMI Predicting Activity Counts and MVPA Minutes 60 Min After EMA Recordings

Total activity counts
MVPA minutes
95% CI
95% CI
B SE t p Lower Upper B SE t p Lower Upper
Intercept 2.98 0.05 65.44 <.001 2.89 3.07 0.75 0.08 9.13 <.001 0.59 0.92
Gender 0.15 0.07 2.15 .032 0.01 0.29 −0.24 0.13 −1.87 .061 −0.49 0.01
Age −0.06 0.02 −2.80 .005 −0.10 −0.02 −0.13 0.03 −3.80 <.001 −0.20 −0.06
z-BMI 0.02 0.03 0.62 .535 −0.05 0.09 −0.01 0.05 −0.27 .784 −0.12 0.09
Happy (between) −0.09 0.24 −0.38 .703 −0.57 0.39 −0.57 0.41 −1.40 .163 −1.38 0.23
Happy (within) −0.01 0.05 −0.21 .833 −0.10 0.08 0.04 0.11 0.38 .706 −0.18 0.27
Happy (between) × z-BMI −0.09 0.30 −0.31 .759 −0.67 0.49 0.59 0.47 1.26 .209 −0.33 1.52
Happy (within) × z-BMI 0.07 0.05 1.41 .160 −0.03 0.18 0.14 0.13 1.02 .309 −0.13 0.40
B SE Z p Lower Upper B SE Z p Lower Upper
Random intercept (family) 0.02 0.01 1.15 .249 0.00 0.08 0.08 0.04 1.97 .049 0.03 0.22
Random intercept (participant) 0.04 0.01 2.59 .010 0.02 0.08 0.05 0.04 1.28 .202 0.01 0.22
Conditional R2 0.1352 0.1125

Note. MVPA = moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (minutes); EMA = ecological momentary assessment; z-BMI = body mass index z-score; between=grand-mean centered variable; within = person-mean centered variable. Gender was coded such that boys were the reference category. Bolded values indicate significant effects at p < .05.