Does Weight-Cycling Influence Illness Beliefs in Obesity? A Gender-Sensitive Approach

Table 1

Characteristics of the total sample as well as female and male subsamples with gender differences in level of obesity and weight-cycling.

	Total sample (N = 433)		Women (n = 356)		Men (n = 77)		χ^2	df
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Age	42.50	10.80	41.08	10.38	49.06	10.32
BMI in kg/m^2	41.75	9.03	42.49	8.61	38.35	10.15
Obesity level (%)							37.76^∗∗∗	2
Level I	26		20		53
Level II	22		23		18
Level III	52		57		29
Weight-cyclers (%)							29.77^∗∗∗	2
Yes	49		55		21
No	51		45		79

Note. value (two-sided), ; weight-cyclers: 10 or more diet attempts, non-weight-cyclers: fewer than 10 or no diet attempts.