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

Table 2

Differences between groups for psychological variables.

Variables	Lower depressive SX (𝑛=21)	Higher depressive SX (𝑛=24)	Anova MANOVA	P
	𝑀 (ET)	𝑀 (ET)
BES—Appearance^c	1.69 (0.65)	1.10 (0.65)	𝐹(1,43)=9.27	0.004^*
BES—Weight^c	1.21 (0.63)	0.69 (0.50)	𝐹(1,43)=9.44	0.004^*
BES—Attribution^c	1.99 (0.52)	1.68 (0.57)	𝐹(1,43)=3.58	0.065
RSES^c	34.52 (4.38)	27.38 (6.86)	𝐹(1,43)=16.80	<0.001^*
IWQL	79.38 (10.88)	68.34 (16.00)	𝐹(1,43)=7.11	0.011
TCI—Novelty Seeking^d	21.14 (4.27)	21.29 (7.54)	𝐹(1,43)=0.06	0.937
TCI—Harm Avoidance^d	13.19 (4.56)	16.92 (7.98)	𝐹(1,43)=3.56	0.066
TCI—Reward Dependence^d	15.19 (3.78)	15.21 (4.27)	𝐹(1,43)=0.00	0.988
TCI—Persistence^d	5.00 (2.02)	5.54 (2.15)	𝐹(1,43)=0.75	0.391
TCI—Self-Determination^d	35.48 (3.67)	23.88 (8.89)	𝐹(1,43)=31.08	<0.001^*
TCI—Cooperativeness^d	37.33 (2.54)	32.04 (5.93)	𝐹(1,43)=14.38	<0.001^*
TCI—Self-Transcendence^d	11.29 (6.24)	12.08 (6.95)	𝐹(1,43)=0.16	0.689

^*𝑃<0.005 (Bonferroni correction); ^cMANOVA 3; ^dMANOVA 4.