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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eat Weight Disord. 2021 Jun 7;27(3):979–988. doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01209-1

Table 3.

Moderation effects of positive beliefs on associations between ruminative processes and eating disorder symptoms

Model Predictor R Adjusted R2 b SE(b) t 95% CI
Positive Beliefs x Brooding Model summary 0.63 0.40
Intercept − 2.89 3.03 − 0.95 (− 8.86, 3.07)
Gender 7.41 1.10 6.72 (5.24, 9.58)
BMI 0.91 0.13 7.15 (0.66, 1.16)
Brooding 1.70 0.16 10.65 (1.39, 2.01)
Positive beliefs 0.06 0.09 0.62 (− 0.12, 0.23)
Positive beliefs x brooding − .04 .02 − 1.97 (− .07, − .0001)
Positive Beliefs x Reflection Model summary 0.59 0.35
Intercept − 4.51 3.19 − 1.42 (− 10.78, 1.76)
Gender 8.67 1.16 7.46 (6.39, 10.96)
BMI 1.00 0.13 7.46 (0.74, 1.26)
Reflection 1.51 0.19 7.85 (1.13, 1.89)
Positive beliefs 0.12 0.10 1.23 (− 0.07, 0.32)
Positive beliefs x reflection − 0.06 0.02 2.98 (− 0.10, − 0.02)
Positive Beliefs x ED-Specific Brooding Model Summary 0.76 0.57
Intercept 11.97 2.78 4.30 (6.50, 17.43)
Gender 3.02 1.01 3.00 (1.04, 5.00)
BMI 0.28 0.12 2.38 (0.05, .51)
ED-specific brooding 1.96 .11 17.96 (1.75, 2.17)
Positive beliefs 0.13 0.07 1.79 (− 0.01, .27)
Positive beliefs X ED-specific brooding − 0.01 0.01 − 0.54 (− 0.03, .02)
Positive Beliefs x ED-Specific Brooding Model summary 0.70 0.49
Intercept 3.99 2.92 1.37 (− 1.76, 9.74)
Gender 7.04 1.03 6.81 (5.01, 9.07)
BMI 0.062 0.12 5.09 (0.38, 0.87)
ED-specific reflection 4.57 0.32 14.38 (3.94, 5.19)
Positive beliefs 0.19 0.08 2.46 (0.04, 0.34)
Positive beliefs X ED-specific reflection − 0.15 .03 4.34 (− 0.22, − 0.08)

Outcome variable of interest eating disorder diagnostic scale symptom composite score. BMI body mass index (kg/m2), Brooding brooding subscale from ruminative response scale, Reflection reflection subscale from the ruminative response scale, ED-brooding brooding subscale from ruminative response scale for eating disorders; ED-reflection rumination subscale from the ruminative response scale for eating disorders, ED eating disorder, positive beliefs positive beliefs about rumination scale, Gender participant self-identified gender (dummy coded: 0 = men, 1 = women)

Bold text indicates significance at p < 0.008 (2-tailed) after Bonferroni correction