Table 8.
Linear regression predicting support for existing anti-bullying laws to include protections against weight-based bullying.
| Predictors | Australia (β) |
Canada (β) |
France (β) |
Germany (β) |
United Kingdom (β) |
United States (β) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||||||
| Age | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.01 | −0.05 | 0.04 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.03 | -0.02 | 0.05 |
| Education | ||||||
| College degree | −0.05 | 0.00 | −0.10* | −0.04 | −0.01 | −0.01 |
| Marital Status | 0.04 | 0.01 | −0.02 | −0.05 | 0.02 | −0.04 |
| Weight Status | ||||||
| Current BMI | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Weight Stigma | ||||||
| Experienced Weight Stigma | 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.08* |
| Internalized Weight Stigma | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
Note. Sex reference group= male. Educational attainment reference group= no college degree. Marital status reference group= not currently married (i.e., includes individuals who reported a marital status other than ‘married’). Experienced weight stigma (0=no experienced weight stigma, 1=at least one experience of weight stigma).
*
p ≤ .001