Binge Eating Disorder Mediates Links between Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Caloric Intake in Overweight and Obese Women

Table 1

Group means and intercorrelations for study variables.

	1	2	3	4	5
(1) Age	30.1 (6.7)
	31.3 (8.5)
(2) Body mass index (kg/m^2)	−0.17	34.3 (5.5)
	−0.14	34.9 (7.2)
	−0.15
(3) Depression symptoms	−0.09	−0.33	𝟏𝟎.𝟏(𝟒.𝟖)
	0.06	0.34	𝟒.𝟖(𝟓.𝟎)
	−0.04	0.04
(4) Anxiety symptoms	−0.05	−0.29	0.34	𝟖.𝟓(𝟔.𝟓)
	0.35	0.24	0.66^**	𝟐.𝟕(𝟑.𝟏)
	0.04	−0.08	0.57^***
(5) Kilocalorie intake	−0.10	−0.06	0.28	0.27	2305.1 (834.0)
	−0.26	0.54^*	0.15	0.00	1461.8 (641.9)
	−0.19	0.02	0.41^∗	0.40^*

^*𝑃<0.05; ^**𝑃<0.01; ^***𝑃<0.001.
Notes: off-diagonal cells depict Pearson’s correlation coefficients for participants diagnosed with binge eating disorder (top; 𝑛=15), controls (middle; 𝑛=17), and the overall sample (bottom; 𝑛=32); values on the diagonal reflect means and standard deviations for cases (top) and controls (bottom), with bold-face type indicating group differences (𝑃<0.01) as assessed via 𝐹-statistic with 1,  30 degrees of freedom.