Mobile exercising and tweeting the pounds away: The use of digital applications and microblogging and their association with disordered eating and compulsive exercise

Figures & data

Table 1. Means, standard deviations, and intercorrelations of all study variables

Variable	Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Sex	1.76	.43	1
2. Age	20.48	1.75	−.3^***	1
3. Body mass index	22.63	3.75	−.42^***	.26^***	1
4. New social media	2.93	1.11	.17^**	−.21^**	−.03	1
5. Compulsive exercise	3.8	.79	−.1^	.04	.26^***	−.7	1
6. Disordered eating	2.56	.77	.14^*	−.08	−.07	.13^*	.52^***	1
7. Traditional blog	1.4	.8	−.02	.03	.11^	.17^**	.21^**	.25^***	1
8. Microblog	1.46	.75	.04	.02	−.1	.29^***	.2^**	.38^***	.58^***	1
9. Mobile apps	1.73	1.18	.08	.03	.02	.19^***	.29^***	.41^***	.56^***	.46^***	1

^* p < .05.

^** p < .01.

^*** p < .001.

Table 2. Hierarchical regression analyses testing the association between type of social media use and reports of disordered eating and compulsive exercising

	EAT			CET
	B(SE)	β	p	B(SE)	β	p
Block 1
Age	−.04(.03)	−.10	.11	−.03(.03)	−.07	.26
Sex	.21(.11)	.12	.06	−.05(.12)	−.03	.67
BMI	.03(.01)	.01	.06	.05(.01)	.24	.00***
Overall social media use	−.02(.04)	−.04	.60	−.11(.05)	−.16	.01**
Block 2
Traditional blog use	−.10(.07)	−.10	.20	.01(.08)	.01	.95
Microblog use	.24(.08)	.24	.00***	.03(.08)	.03	.75
Mobile apps use	.22(.05)	.34	.00***	.20(.05)	.31	.00***
R^2	.22			.17
∆R^2	.18***			.10***
F	18.22			9.40
N	241			241

Note: All coefficients are from the full model.

^* p ≤ .05.

^** p ≤ .01.

^*** p < .001.