Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index

Table 3

Percentage contributions from decomposition model of racial and ethnic disparities in adolescent body mass index.

	Black-white adolescent females		Hispanic-white adolescent females
	(BMI gap = 2.2 units)		(BMI gap = 0.9 units)
(Column)	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Individual, parental, and economic contextual factors	44.72%	41.36%	62.81%	59.83%
Weight misperceptions		12.96%		3.31%
Total percentage explained	44.72%	54.32%	62.81%	63.13%

Variables included in each category correspond to the list shown in Table 1.