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Table 1 Participant demographics

From: I’m not just fat, I’m old: has the study of body image overlooked “old talk”?

 

USA

UK

Australia

Elsewhere

(n=367)

(n=224)

(n=168)

(n=22)

 M

 SD

 M

 SD

 M

 SD

 M

 SD

Age

39.41

14.37

32.28

11.75

37.42

12.21

34.82

12.67

Body Mass Index

24.09

4.68

24.69

6.31

25.48

5.63

23.80

4.01

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Education a

        

Some high school

2

0.5

0

0

5

2.60

0

0

High school

27

7.4

48

21.52

20

11.90

6

30.0

Diploma/ Associate’s Degree

20

5.4

23

10.31

35

21.21

0

0

Undergraduate

142

38.8

95

42.60

70

41.67

7

35.0

Postgraduate

175

47.9

57

25.57

38

22.62

7

35.0

Ethnicity b

        

White

312

85.7

210

93.8

153

91.1

18

81.1

Other

52

14.3

14

6.2

15

8.9

4

18.1

  1. a. Education indicates highest level of education completed. Frequencies (%) calculated with available data on a within country basis.
  2. b. Because we had an international sample and the vast majority of participants identified as White, for brevity we collapsed all other ethnic groups into ‘Other’.