Table 3.

Multilevel models predicting participants' perceptions of their partner's weight change (N = 500).

	Estimate	SE	t	p	Effect size (pr)
Model 1: Main effects
BMI	0.01	<0.01	1.74	0.08	0.11
BMI partner	0.01	<0.01	2.36	0.02	0.15
Dissastisfaction with partner's body	0.02	0.03	0.76	0.45	0.05
Relationship quality	−0.03	0.02	−1.97	<0.05	−0.13
Relationship length	0.01	0.01	1.50	0.14	0.10
Age	<0.01	<0.01	0.52	0.60	0.03
Gender	−0.06	0.03	−1.87	0.06	−0.12
Model 2: Interactions with actor gender
BMI*actor gender	0.01	0.01	1.10	0.27	0.07
BMI partner*actor gender	< −0.01	0.01	−0.37	0.71	−0.02
Dissastisfaction with partner's body*actor gender	−0.07	0.03	−20.44	0.02	−0.16
Relationship quality*actor gender	<0.01	0.02	0.28	0.78	0.02
Relationship length*actor gender	0.01	0.01	2.08	0.04	0.14
Age*actor gender	−0.01	<0.01	−1.68	0.09	−0.11
Model 3: Interactions with sexual orientation
BMI*actor gender*partner gender	<0.01	0.01	0.33	0.74	0.02
BMI partner* actor gender*partner gender	0.01	0.01	1.30	0.19	0.09
Dissastisfaction with partner's body*actor gender*partner gender	−0.01	0.03	−0.50	0.62	−0.03
Relationship quality*actor gender*partner gender	−0.01	0.02	−0.71	0.48	−0.05
Relationship length*actor gender*partner gender	−0.01	0.01	−0.60	0.55	−0.04
Age*actor gender*partner gender	<0.01	0.01	0.53	0.60	0.04

Analyses examining interactions with partner gender were included in model 3, but were not part of study aims so are not shown here. Significant findings are shown in bold.