Table 4.
Time-Lagged Models Predicting Changes in Eating Pathology across Adulthood
| Drive for Thinness | Bulimia | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without BMI | Partial R2 | With BMI | Partial R2 | Without BMI | Partial R2 | With BMI | Partial R2 | |
| Fixed Effects | γ (SE) | γ (SE) | γ (SE) | γ (SE) | ||||
| Intercept (γ00) | 11.28 (0.20)*** | .67 | 5.89 (0.83)*** | .03 | 10.23 (0.14)*** | .77 | 5.17 (0.58)*** | .05 |
| Age (γ10) | 0.04 (0.02)* | <.01 | 0.01 (0.02) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.01) | <.01 | −0.03 (0.01) | <.01 |
| BMI | -- | -- | 0.24 (0.04)*** | .03 | -- | -- | 0.23 (0.03)*** | .05 |
| Gender | 2.70 (0.52)*** | .02 | 3.16 (0.45)*** | .03 | 1.10 (0.32)** | .01 | 1.53 (0.31)*** | .01 |
| EA | −0.09 (0.18) | <.01 | −0.07 (0.18) | <.01 | −0.26 (0.12)* | <.01 | −0.24 (0.12)† | <.01 |
| MS | −0.41 (0.32) | <.01 | −0.43 (0.33) | <.01 | −0.10 (0.22) | <.01 | −0.14 (0.23) | <.01 |
| PS | 0.30 (0.39) | <.01 | 0.25 (0.40) | <.01 | 0.16 (0.27) | <.01 | 0.13 (0.28) | <.01 |
| Gender × Age | −0.01 (0.04) | <.01 | −0.01 (0.04) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.03) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.03) | |
| EA × Age | 0.03 (0.02) | <.01 | 0.03 (0.02) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.01) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.01) | <.01 |
| MS × Age | 0.04 (0.05) | <.01 | 0.03 (0.05) | <.01 | 0.01 (0.03) | <.01 | <0.01 (0.03) | <.01 |
| PS × Age | −0.03 (0.05) | <.01 | −0.03 (0.05) | <.01 | −0.02 (0.04) | <.01 | −0.01 (0.04) | <.01 |
| EA × Gender | 0.26 (0.39) | <.01 | 0.37 (0.39) | <.01 | −0.04 (0.27) | <.01 | 0.06 (0.27) | <.01 |
| MS × Gender | −0.80 (0.72) | <.01 | −0.72 (0.73) | <.01 | 0.13 (0.50) | <.01 | 0.22 (0.52) | <.01 |
| PS × Gender | 0.20 (0.89) | <.01 | −0.06 (0.91) | <.01 | −0.23 (0.62) | <.01 | −0.52 (0.64) | <.01 |
| EA × Age × Gender | −0.02 (0.05) | <.01 | −0.03 (0.05) | <.01 | 0.03 (0.03) | <.01 | 0.02 (0.03) | <.01 |
| MS × Age × Gender | 0.09 (0.11) | <.01 | 0.08 (0.11) | <.01 | −0.06 (0.07) | <.01 | −0.06 (0.07) | <.01 |
| PS × Age × Gender | −0.02 (0.11) | <.01 | 0.02 (0.11) | <.01 | 0.06 (0.08) | <.01 | 0.10 (0.08) | <.01 |
| Variance | ||||||||
| Within-Person | 6.42 (0.41)*** | 6.68 (0.43)*** | 3.05 (0.20)*** | 3.34 (0.22)*** | ||||
| Intercept | 16.40 (0.96)*** | 14.90 (0.91)*** | 8.93 (0.52)*** | 7.57 (0.47)*** | ||||
| Slope | 0.01 (<0.01)*** | 0.01 (<0.01)** | 0.01 (<0.01)*** | 0.01 (<0.01)** | ||||
| Fit Indices | ||||||||
| AIC | 11032.3 | 10992.9 | 9739.5 | 9671.0 | ||||
| BIC | 11143.9 | 11110.0 | 9851.0 | 9788.1 | ||||
Note. EA=Educational Attainment; MS=Marital Status; PS=Parental Status;
†
p = .05,
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01,
***
p < .001