Eat, pray, love: disordered eating in religious and non-religious men and women

Table 2 Comparison of means of non-religious, low-risk and high-risk participants on disordered eating and environmental variables

Variable	Non-religious		Religious
	Non-religious		Low-risk		High-risk
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F	p
Age	27.33	9.53	29.63	13.07	27.48	6.05	2.92	.056
BMI	25.99_a	7.35	25.74_a	6.21	22.16_b	7.29	8.65	< .001
Disordered eating total	58.73_a	24.72	59.80_a	26.70	83.54_b	28.71	26.32	< .001
Body dissatisfaction	14.20	6.97	13.68	6.54	14.16	5.35	0.47	.628
Cognitive restraint	5.44	3.11	5.68	2.79	6.13	2.43	2.52	.083
Purging	2.63_a	4.24	3.10_a	5.11	9.03_b	6.30	37.95	< .001
Restricting	7.39_a	5.58	7.74_a	5.32	11.63_b	4.13	32.79	< .001
Excessive exercise	7.27_a	5.28	7.77_a	4.81	10.23_b	3.74	18.35	< .001
Negative attitudes obesity	5.40_a	4.68	5.82_a	4.70	9.65_b	4.38	31.43	< .001
Binge eating	12.57_a	7.03	11.70_a	6.48	15.30_b	5.87	10.60	< .001
Muscle building	3.81_a	3.74	4.35_a	4.31	8.13_b	4.36	33.99	< .001
Pressure–family	9.40_a	4.64	9.70_a	4.75	12.83_b	2.95	39.25	< .001
Pressure–peers	8.00_a	4.17	8.07_a	4.23	12.43_b	3.42	55.76	< .001
Pressure–media	13.48_a	5.38	13.41_a	5.27	12.38_a	3.46	3.04	.049
Internalization thin/low body fat	15.97	5.05	15.79	4.89	16.05	3.40	0.17	.847
Internalization muscular/athletic	13.84_a	5.37	13.57_a	5.36	16.16_b	3.46	15.27	< .001

Means with different subscripts have statistically significant mean differences at the p = .05 level by Bonferroni’s post hoc test. Welch’s F was used for the F value

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