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

Table 5 Results of Bootstrap Linear Regression of perceived maternal and paternal negative weight shape and eating comments, biological sex and adolescent stage on the dependent variable eating disorder cognitions (EDEQ-WS) (N = 1994)

Variables	B	SE	Bias	BCa 95% CI B
Variables	B	SE	Bias	LL	UL	p
Biological Sex	1.209	.065	− 9.56	1.088	1.341	< .001
Adolescent Stage	.097	.021	.000	.058	.137	< .001
Mat Pos W/S	− .014	.031	− 6.19	− .072	.048	.642
Mat Neg W/S	.374	.048	.000	.280	.467	< .001
Mat Pos EAT	− .035	.034	− .001	− .094	.030	.308
Mat Neg EAT	.201	.037	.000	.128	.270	< .001
Pat Pos W/S	− .033	.035	− .002	− .104	.030	.351
Pat Neg W/S	.210	.054	.000	.108	.314	< .001
Pat Pos EAT	− .030	.037	.000	− .104	.047	.394
Pat Neg EAT	− .026	.044	.000	− .118	.058	.546

Mat Maternal, Pat Paternal, W/S Weight Shape Comments, EAT Eating comments, B Unstandardized coefficients, SE Standard Error, BCa Bootstrap for Coefficients correcting for skew based on 100 bootstrap samples, LL lower level, UL upper level, p significance

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