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

Table 4 Pearson Correlations and bootstrap p values between Eating Disorder Symptoms, Biological Sex, Adolescent Stage, Maternal and Paternal negative weight shape, and Maternal and Paternal negative eating comments, median level and IQR (N = 1949)

	Variables	Median	IQR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1	EDEQ -WS	.75	.08–2.42	–	.391**	.139**	.009	.377**	− .053	.232**	− .031	.311**	− .038	.197**
2	Biological Sex	2.00	1.00–2.00	.391**	–	− .021	.197**	.100**	.014	− .057	.052	.089**	.029	.008
3	Adol. Stage	3.00	1.00–3.00	.139**	− .021	–	− .066	.149**	− .086**	.069**	− .093**	.102**	− .142**	.035
4	Mat Pos WS	3.00	2.00–4.00	.009	.197**	− .066	–	− .068**	.540	− .010	.446**	.017	.374**	.037
5	Mat Neg WS	1.00	1.00–2.00	.377**	.100**	.149**	− .068**	–	− .013	.495**	− .007	.482**	.010	.349**
6	Pat Pos WS	2.00	1.00–3.00	− .053	.014	− .086**	.540**	− .013	–	.071**	.381**	− .017	.551**	.075**
7	Pat Neg WS	1.00	1.00–2.00	.232**	− .057	.069	− .010**	.495	.071**	–	.045	.388**	.118**	.625**
8	Mat Pos Eat	3.00	1.00–3.00	− .031	.052	− .093**	.446**	− .007**	.381**	.045	–	.074**	.616**	.100**
9	Mat Neg Eat	2.00	1.00–3.00	.311**	.089**	.102**	.017	.482**	− .017	.338**	.074**	–	.056	.525**
10	Pat Pos Eat	2.00	1.00–3.00	− .038	.029	− .142**	.374**	.010**	.551**	.118**	.616**	.056	–	.196
11	Pat Neg Eat	1.00	1.00–3.00	.197**	.008	.035	.037	.349**	.075**	.625**	.100**	.525**	.196**	–

EDEQ-WS Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire-Weight/Shape Sub Scale, Adol. adolescent stage, N number included, SD standard deviation, IQR inter quartile range. Mat Pos WS maternal positive weight/shape comments, Mat Neg WS maternal negative weight/shape comments, Pat Pos WS paternal positive weight/shape comments, Pat Neg WS paternal negative weight/shape comments, Mat Pos Eat maternal positive eating comments, Mat Neg Eat maternal negative eating comments, Pat Pos Eat paternal positive eating comments, Pat Neg Eat paternal negative eating comments
**p < .01. Unless otherwise noted bootstrap results are based on 1000 bootstrap samples

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