Sociocultural pressure as a mediator of eating disorder symptoms in a non-clinical Australian sample

Figures & data

Table 1. Summary of uncentred means (M) and standard deviation (SD) for predictor and outcome variables by gender

Variable	Females		Males
	M	SD	M	SD
ED Symptomology	105.20	41.47	71.30	60.36
Body Dissat.	2.57	0.68	2.29	0.81
Internal-G	27.21	5.42	23.71	5.55
Internal-A	14.17	3.37	13.60	3.67
Perceived Pressure	20.94	6.58	14.70	5.67
Information	24.75	5.43	22.65	5.89

Note. ED = eating disorder; Body Dissat. = Body Dissatisfaction; Internal-G = Internalisation-General; Internal-A = Internalisation-Athlete;

Table 2. Pearson inter-correlations between study variables

Variables	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1 Gender	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2 Body Dissat.	−.17**	–	–	–	–	–	–
3 ED symptomatology	−.52**	.65**	–	–	–	–	–
4 Internal-G	−.30**	.22**	.42**	–	–	–	–
5 Internal-A	–	.28**	.31**	.47**	–	–	–
6 Perceived Pressure	−.45**	.38**	.63**	.71**	.53**	–	–
7 Information	−.20**	.14*	.22**	.46**	.33**	.49**	–

Note. Body Dissat. = Body Dissatisfaction; ED = eating disorder; Internal-G = Internalisation-General; Internal-A = Internalisation-Athlete.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001, two tailed.

Figure 1. Perceived Pressure as a mediator in the relationship between Internalisation-General and eating disorder symptoms (generic mediation model being tested following Baron & Kenny, 1986). Indirect or mediated pathway

Table 3. Stepwise procedure (Baron & Kenny, 1986) demonstrating mediating effect of perceived sociocultural pressure on the relationship between Internal-Athlete and Information and eating disorder symptomatology

	B	SE B	β
Step 1 path c: Internal-A—ED symptomatology	3.80	0.87	.31**
Step 2 path a: Internal-A—Perceived Pressure	1.05	0.12	.53**
Step 3 path b: Perceived Pressure—ED symptomatology	3.96	0.43	.65**
Step 4 path c’: Internal-A × Perceived Pressure— ED symptomatology	−0.37	0.85	−.03
Step1 path c: Information—ED symptomatology	1.73	0.60	.22*
Step 2 path a: Information—Perceived Pressure	0.64	0.08	.49
Step 3 path b: Perceived Pressure—ED symptomatology	4.23	0.42	.70**
Step 4 path c’: Information × Perceived Pressure − ED symptomatology	0.97	−0.12	.07**

Note. ED = eating disorder; Internal-A = Internal-Athlete.

N = 265.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001

Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator–Mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173–1182. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.51.6.1173

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