Eating and Psychological Profiles of Women with Higher Depressive Symptoms Who Are Trying to Lose Weight

Table 1

Differences between groups for age-, weight, and eating-related variables.

Variables	Lower depressive SX (𝑛=21)	Higher depressive SX (𝑛=24)	Anova MANOVA	𝑃
	𝑀 (ET)	𝑀 (ET)
Baseline BMI	31.05 (4.79)	30.16 (4.93)	𝐹(1,43)=0.37	0.548
Age^a	41.56 (8.82)	35.50 (9.38)	𝐹(1,43)=4.07	0.050
Age of first weight concerns^a	20.56 (7.85)	14.45 (6.14)	𝐹(1,40)=7.25	0.011
Age of first weight-loss attempts^a	24.69 (9.23)	17.59 (6.06)	𝐹(1,38)=8.20	0.007
2-month weight loss
(in %)	2.74 (2.43)	1.13 (1.66)	𝐹(1,34)=5.41	0.026
(in pounds)	5.05 (5.01)	1.93 (3.00)
Number of previous weight-loss attempts	5.41 (4.77)	8.04 (10.43)	𝐹(1,38)=0.79	0.380
TFEQ-Restraint^b	10.19 (3.23)	9.67 (4.87)	𝐹(1,43)=0.18	0.678
TFEQ-Disinhibition^b	8.10 (3.49)	11.21 (2.75)	𝐹(1,43)=11.17	0.002^*
TFEQ-Hunger^b	3.52 (3.08)	8.58 (3.54)	𝐹(1,43)=25.84	<0.001^*

^*𝑃<0.005 (Bonferroni correction); ^aMANOVA 1; ^bMANOVA 2.