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Table 1 Participants’ characteristic

From: The mediation effect of perceived weight stigma in association between weight status and eating disturbances among university students: is there any gender difference?

Variables

Females

Males

t

P value

Mean (SD)

n (%)

Mean (SD)

n (%)

  

Age

20.13 (2.01)

381 (53.9)

20.44 (1.47)

326 (46.1)

− 2.28

0.023*

BMI

20.65 (2.97)

 

21.48 (3.55)

 

− 3.32

< .001*

Low weight

17.57 (0.75)

74 (19.4)

17.60 (0.78)

49 (15.0)

  

Average weight

20.27 (1.14)

241 (63.3)

20.65 (1.26)

196 (60.1)

  

High weight

25.67 (3.18)

64 (16.8)

25.83 (4.10)

81 (24.8)

  

Missing

 

2 (0.5)

 

  

Major

    

− 7.04

< .001*

Health and social sciences

 

206 (54.1)

 

94 (28.8)

  

Others

 

175 (45.9)

 

232 (71.2)

  

Year of study

    

− 4.76

< .001*

1st year

 

143 (37.5)

 

76 (23.3)

  

2nd year

 

118 (31.0)

 

86 (26.4)

  

3rd year

 

88 (23.1)

 

125 (38.3)

  

4th year

 

14 (3.7)

 

30 (9.2)

  

5th year

 

10 (2.6)

 

7 (2.1)

  

6th year

 

2 (0.5)

 

  

Missing

 

6 (1.6)

 

2 (0.6)

  

Chronic illness

    

− 0.53

0.60

Yes

17 (4.5)

 

12 (3.7)

  

No

363 (95.3)

 

314 (96.3)

  
  1. *p < .05