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

Table 6 Results of Bootstrap Regression of perceived maternal and paternal negative weight shape and eating comments, biological sex, adolescent stage, BMI percentile and K10 on the dependant variable eating disorder cognitions (EDEQ-WS) (N = 1994)

Variables	B	SE	Bias	BCa 95% CI B
Variables	B	SE	Bias	LL	UL	p
BMI%ile	.11	.001	9.78	.009	.012	< .001
K10	.86	.004	6.35	.079	.094	< .001
Biological sex	.843	.057	.000	.728	.956	< .001
Adolescent stage	.032	.018	− .001	− .001	.062	.069
Mat Pos W/S	− .007	.026	− .001	− .061	.043	.765
Mat Neg W/S	.217	.040	.000	.137	.295	< .001
Mat Pos EAT	.025	.030	.000	− .031	.085	.391
Mat Neg EAT	.096	.031	.000	.039	.154	< .001
Pat Pos W/S	.010	.029	.001	− .051	.071	.735
Pat Neg W/S	.102	.045	.002	.009	.197	.023
Pat Pos EAT	− .005	.031	.002	− .065	.048	.903
Pat Neg EAT	− .029	.037	.000	− .100	.044	.432

BMI%ile Body Mass Index (kg/m²) percentile, K10 Kessler 10-item scale, Mat Maternal, Pat Paternal, W/S Weight Shape Comments, EAT Eating comments, B Unstandardized coefficients, SE Standard Error, BCa Bootstrap for Coefficients based on 100 bootstrap samples, LL lower level, UL upper level, p significance

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