Relationships between personality traits and disordered eating among Chinese female exercisers: the role of symptoms of exercise dependence and obsessive-compulsiveness

Table 3 Overview of the direct and indirect effects of conscientiousness on disordered eating in our cohort of female exercisers (N = 295)

	Standardized coefficient	SE	Bootstrapping
95% CI
			Lower	Upper
Direct effect	− 0.106	0.034	− 0.128	0.005
Indirect effect
Path 1	0.006	0.009	− 0.010	0.027
Conscientiousness
↓
Exercise Dependence symptoms
↓
Disordered eating
Path 2	− 0.060	0.026	− 0.115	− 0.014
Conscientiousness
↓
Obsessive–Compulsive symptoms
↓
Disordered eating
Path 3	0.016	0.007	0.003	0.031
Conscientiousness
↓
Exercise Dependence symptoms
↓
Obsessive–Compulsive symptoms
↓
Disordered eating
Total effect	− 0.144	0.035	− 0.153	− 0.015

Age and educational level were controlled for the model; SE Standard error, CI Confidence interval

ISSN: 2050-2974