Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 2 Positive weight/shape and eating parent comment associations to daughters and sons on Eating Disorder Symptoms (EDEQ-WS) and psychological distress (K10) measures

From: Exploring associations between positive and negative valanced parental comments about adolescents’ bodies and eating and eating problems: a community study

EDEQ-WS	Maternal		Paternal
EDEQ-WS	Correlation coefficient	Significance	Correlation coefficient	Significance
	All comments N = 1949		All comments N = 1949
Positive W/S	.010	.653	− .049	.029
Positive eating	− .030	.184	− .038	.092
	Daughters comments n = 1037		Daughters comments n = 1037
Positive W/S	− .140	< .001	− .104	< .001
Positive eating	− .098	.002	− .110	.001
	Sons comments n = 912		Sons comments n = 912
Positive W/S	.040	.223	.016	.640
Positive eating	.016	.626	.045	.172

K10	Maternal		Paternal
K10	Correlation coefficient	Significance	Correlation coefficient	Significance
	All comments N = 1949		All comments N = 1949
Positive W/S	− .065	.004	− .121	< .001
Positive eating	− .107	< .001	− 102	< .001
	Daughters comments n = 1037		Daughters comments n = 1037
Positive W/S	− .188	< .001	− .177	< .001
Positive eating	− .157	< .001	− .159	< .001
	Sons comments n = 912		Sons comments n = 912
Positive W/S	− .031	.344	− .062	.060
Positive eating	− .086	.010	− .049	.142

Pearson Correlation and bootstrap p value
Unless otherwise noted bootstrap results are based on 1000 bootstrap samples
W/S Weight Shape comments, EDEQ-WS Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire-Weight/Shape Sub Scale, SOBBS Self-Objectification Beliefs and Behaviours Scale, FNE Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, K10 Psychological Distress

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