TABLE 1.

Demographic data, monetary reward discounting, and eating and reward sensitivity behavioral domain summed z scores for participants with obesity and participants with normal weight

	People with obesity (n = 25)	People with normal weight (n = 21)	p value
Age (y)	31.6 (6.4)	28 (5.2)	0.049*
Sex (male/female)	4/21	5/16	0.55
Race/ethnicity	12 Black/13 White	2 Black/19 White (1 Hispanic)	0.012*
Education level (y)	15.1 (1.8)	16.3 (1.6)	0.04*
BMI (kg/m2)	40 (5.0)	22 (2.2)	<0.001***
Body fat percentage (%)	48.8 (4.1)	32.6 (5.8)	<0.001***
Probabilistic reward discounting (AUC)	0.21 (0.06)	0.19 (0.11)	0.61
Delayed reward discounting (AUC)	0.52 (0.12)	0.53 (0.26)	0.99
Eating related to emotion summed z score	1.12 (2.57)	−1.5 (1.77)	<0.001***
Eating related to reward sensitivity summed z score	1.34 (1.68)	−1.78 (1.74)	<0.001 ***
Non-food reward sensitivity summed z score	−0.79 (2.1)	0.9 (1.9)	0.03*
Sensitivity to punishment summed z score	0.51 (1.66)	−0.87 (2.89)	0.022*

Independent Student t test, Mann-Whitney U test, or Pearson χ² tests were used as appropriate. Means (SD) or frequencies are reported.

Abbreviation: AUC, area under the curve.

^*p ≤ 0.05

^***p ≤ 0.001.