Body Image of Highly Trained Female Athletes Engaged in Different Types of Sport

Table 2

Stepwise forward selection regression analysis for variables predicting body image .

Steps	Variable	B	SE B		SE	T	p
1	Sport type (aesthetic/nonaesthetic)	−2.757	0.711	−0.263	0.068	−3.87	<0.001
2	Age	0.363	0.088	0.341	0.083	4.10	<0.001
3	BMI	−0.285	0.080	−0.230	0.064	−3.55	<0.001
4	Level of competition	1.613	0.721	0.153	0.068	2.23	<0.05
5	Training background	−0.104	0.087	−0.101	0.084	−1.20	0.231

Note. in step 1, in step 2, in step 3, in step 4, and in step 5; sport type coded 0 = aesthetics and 1 = nonaesthetics; level of competition coded 0 = national and 1 = international.