Age and gender differences in misperceptions of body shape in a Taiwanese population

Table 2 Nominal Logistic regression models analyzing select subject characteristics by misperceived overweight and misperceived underweight

Variables	Coefficient (\(\widehat{\upbeta }\))	S.E	p	OR	95% CI
Variables	Coefficient (\(\widehat{\upbeta }\))	S.E	p	OR	Lower	Upper
Misperceived overweight
Intercept	− 2.17	0.38	< 0.001	0.11	0.05	0.24
Young age	0.37	0.34	0.28	1.45	0.74	2.84
Middle age	0.24	0.35	0.49	1.27	0.64	2.49
Gender (male = ref)	1.07	0.39	0.01	2.92	1.36	6.26
Educational level (elementary school or below = ref)
High school	0.49	0.20	0.01	1.64	1.11	2.42
College or above	0.85	0.21	< 0.001	2.35	1.55	3.57
Perceived social status (1–10)	− 0.09	0.04	0.01	0.91	0.84	0.98
Middle age*female	0.15	0.43	0.72	1.16	0.50	2.69
Young age*female	0.50	0.43	0.24	1.64	0.71	3.78
Misperceived underweight
Intercept	− 0.51	0.27	0.06	0.60	0.35	1.03
Young age	− 0.21	0.24	0.39	0.81	0.51	1.30
Middle age	− 0.02	0.21	0.92	0.98	0.64	1.49
Gender (male = ref)	− 0.38	0.27	0.16	0.68	0.40	1.16
Educational level (elementary school or below = ref)
High school	− 0.33	0.18	0.07	0.72	0.50	1.03
College or above	− 0.61	0.21	< 0.001	0.54	0.36	0.82
Perceived social status (1–10)	− 0.02	0.04	0.64	0.98	0.91	1.06
Middle age*female	− 0.75	0.34	0.03	0.47	0.25	0.91
Young age*female	− 1.34	0.45	< 0.001	0.26	0.11	0.64

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