Sequentially mediated effects of weight-related self-stigma and psychological distress in the association between perceived weight stigma and food addiction among Taiwanese university students: A cross-sectional study

Table 3 Hierarchical regression models investigating the relationships between weight stigma, psychological distress, and food addiction (N = 968)

	Dependent variable: YFAS 2.0 Coeff. (SE)/Stand. Coeff. (p-value)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Age	0.04 (0.02)/ 0.05 (0.10)	0.02 (0.02)/ 0.03 (0.35)	0.004 (0.02)/ 0.01 (0.80)
Gender (Ref: female)	0.005 (0.20)/ 0.001 (0.98)	0.26 (0.18)/ 0.04 (0.15)	0.17 (0.17)/ 0.03 (0.30)
Body mass index	0.14 (0.03)/ 0.17 (< 0.001)	− 0.05 (0.03)/ − 0.05 (0.07)	− 0.02 (0.02)/ − 0.02 (0.51)
PWSQ		0.07 (0.03)/ 0.07 (0.02)	− 0.02 (0.03)/ − 0.02 (0.48)
WSSQ		0.16 (0.009)/ 0.56 (< 0.001)	0.11 (0.01)/ 0.39 (< 0.001)
DASS-21			0.07 (0.01)/ 0.35 (< 0.001)
F-value (p-value)	10.97 (< 0.001)	89.29 (< 0.001)	105.24 (< 0.001)
R² (adjusted R²)	0.03 (0.03)	0.32 (0.31)	0.40 (0.39)

PWSQ Perceived Weight Stigma Questionnaire (10 items); WSSQ Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (12 items); DASS-21 Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale-21 (21 items); YFAS 2.0 Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2 (35 items)

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