Body dissatisfaction and body mass in girls and boys transitioning from early to mid-adolescence: additional role of self-esteem and eating habits

Table 3 Linear regression analysis, coefficients, with the Body Dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory as the dependent variable among 1343 adolescent girls and boys

		Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients			Correlations (zero-order)	Unique proportion of the variance
		B	Std. Error	Beta	t	p	Pearson	%
Girls (N = 650)	BMI	1.76	0.15	0.42	12.05	< 0.001	0.46	11.4
	BMI squared	−0.71	0.18	−0.13	−3.91	< 0.001	0.13	1.2
	RSES	−0.80	0.06	−0.39	−13.04	< 0.001	−0.52	13.4
	EH	6.04	0.79	0.24	7.67	< 0.001	0.48	4.6
Boys (N = 693)	BMI	1.03	0.11	0.35	9.03	< 0.001	0.50	6.9
	BMI squared	0.51	0.14	0.14	3.67	< 0.001	−0.41	1.1
	RSES	−0.68	0.06	−0.34	−11.46	< 0.001	−0.39	11.4
	EH	3.49	0.70	0.15	4.97	< 0.001	0.35	2.1

BMI - body mass index, RSES - Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, EH - eating habits, Squared multiple correlation x 100 (girls) = 48.9 %, Squared multiple correlation x 100 (boys) = 41.6 %.

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