Research Article
Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers
Table 1
Participant characteristics.
| | Variables | Mean ± SD or N (%) |
| | Food insecurity score | 1.05 ± 2.03 | | Low food security | 65/313 (21%) | | Very low food security | 40/313 (12.9%) | | BMI | 28.00 ± 7.16 | | Overweight (BMI ≥25) | 181/313 (57.8%) | | % Obese (BMI ≥30) | 89/310 (28.4%) | | Income | 111,057 ± 77434 | | Percent over poverty adjusted for household size | 459.3 ± 320.4 | | Low income (<200% of poverty line) | 53 (16.9%) | | Middle income (200–399% of poverty) | 107 (34.2%) | | High income (greater than 400% of poverty) | 153 (48.9%) | | Percent on government assistance | 46/313 (14.7%) | | Education (years) | 16.32 ± 2.48 | | Age | 32.54 ± 7.14 | | Race | | | American Indian | 0 (0.0%) | | Asian | 2 (0.01%) | | Black | 9 (2.9%) | | Native Hawaiian/PI | 0 (0.0%) | | White | 289 (92.3%) | | Multiracial | 5 (0.16%) | | Refused | 8 (0.26)% | | Marital status | | | Single | 18 (5.8%) | | Married | 242 (77.3%) | | Living as married | 19 (6.0%) | | Divorced | 32 (10.2%) | | Widowed | 2 (0.01%) | | Number of children | 1.93 ± 0.89 | | House size | 3.87 ± 1.04 | | Perceived Stress Scale | 16.37 ± 7.29 | | Delay discounting (ordinal area under the curve) | 0.84 ± 0.14 |
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