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Table 2 Predictors of compulsive exercise (CET total score)

From: Self-reported quantity, compulsiveness and motives of exercise in patients with eating disorders and healthy controls: differences and similarities

Significant predictors

Unstandardised coefficients

Standardised coefficients

t

p

95% confidence interval for B

 

B

SE

Beta

  

Lower boundary

Upper boundary

Anorexia nervosa (R2 = 83.6%)

 Weight management

1.90

.22

.68

8.56

.000

1.45

2.34

 Enjoyment

1.02

.30

.23

3.36

.002

.41

1.63

 Exercise hours per week

.15

.05

.22

3.24

.002

.06

.24

 Maturity fears

.12

.04

.20

2.88

.006

.04

.20

 Appearance

.67

.33

.16

2.05

.046

.012

1.34

 Somatisation

−.71

.40

−.13

−1.79

.081

−1.51

.09

 Impulse regulation

.07

.04

.12

1.69

.097

−.01

.16

Bulimia nervosa (R2 = 65.2%)

 Drive for thinness

.20

.08

.45

2.48

.020

.04

.36

 Weight management

.94

.41

.35

2.29

.027

.11

1.77

 Body dissatisfaction

−.09

.05

−.27

−1.79

.080

−.19

−.01

 Challenge

.74

.28

.25

2.62

.012

.17

1.31

 OCI-R Total

1.16

.51

.22

2.25

.029

.12

2.19

Healthy controls (R2 = 52.1%)

 Weight management

.88

.21

.41

4.30

.000

.47

1.29

 Stress management

.61

.17

.27

3.53

.001

.27

.96

 Drive for thinness

.12

.04

.26

2.76

.007

.03

.20

 Strength and endurance

.43

.19

.17

2.20

.003

.04

.81

  1. CET Compulsive Exercise Test, OCI-R Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised, BDI-2 Beck Depression Inventory-2