Associations between obesity (BMI and waist circumference) and socio-demographic factors, physical activity, dietary habits, life events, resilience, mood, perceived stress and hopelessness in healthy older Europeans

Stewart-Knox, Barbara; E Duffy, Maresa; Bunting, Brendan; Parr, Heather; Vas de Almeida, Maria Daniel; Gibney, Mike

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-424

Table 2 Multiple linear regression analysis predicting BMI (kg/m ² ) from demographic factors, life events, food habits, physical activity and psychological factors in the Great Britain sample (N = 1182)

From: Associations between obesity (BMI and waist circumference) and socio-demographic factors, physical activity, dietary habits, life events, resilience, mood, perceived stress and hopelessness in healthy older Europeans

Demographics	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
Demographics	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta
Sex	−0.28	0.31	−0.03	−0.38	0.32	−0.04	−0.24	0.33	−0.03	−0.36	0.33	−0.38
Working Status	−0.17	0.38	−0.02	−0.48	0.39	−0.05	−0.63	0.38	−0.07	−0.56	0.38	−0.06
Age (years)	−0.00	0.02	−0.00	0.00	0.02	0.001	−0.01	0.03	−0.02	−0.01	0.02	−0.02
Ed (yrs)	−0.07	0.03	−0.12	−0.06	0.03	−0.11	−0.06	0.03	−0.10	−0.06	0.03	−0.10*
Age by*sex	−0.04	0.03	−0.06	−0.03	0.03	−0.06	−0.25	0.03	−0.04	−0.64	0.03	−0.06
Ed (yrs) by*sex	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.02	−0.02	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04
Life Events
Relationships				0.72	0.72	−0.04	−0.65	0.72	−0.04	−0.43	0.72	−0.03
Financial				0.93	0.93	−0.03	−0.78	0.93	−0.04	−0.87	0.93	−0.05
Illness				0.36	0.36	0.14	1.19	0.36	0.11	1.37	0.36	0.13**
Bereavement				0.35	0.35	0.006	0.09	0.35	0.01	0.15	0.35	0.01
Employment				0.52	0.53	0.04	0.54	0.51	0.04	0.58	0.52	0.04
Lifestyle
SED activity 1 ^a							−0.38	0.09	0.12	0.37	0.09	0.13**
PA activity 2 ^b							−0.07	0.11	−0.02	−0.04	0.11	−0.01
FFQ (alcohol)							−0.33	0.16	−0.07	−0.34	0.16	−0.07 †
FFQ (unhealthy)							0.11	0.19	0.02	0.08	0.19	0.02
FFQ (healthy)							−0.24	0.16	−0.05	−0.27	0.16	−0.06 †
Wellbeing
General Mood										0.24	0.16	0.08
Intense Mood										0.12	0.11	0.05
Variable Mood										−0.02	0.12	−0.01
Hopelessness										0.05	0.32	−0.05
Resilience										−0.03	0.03	−0.05
Emotional stress										−0.09	0.15	−0.03
Stress control										−0.11	0.13	−0.05
General mood ¹										−0.12	0.22	−0.03
Intense Mood ¹										0.17	0.96	0.07
Variable Mood ¹										−0.04	0.16	−0.01
Hopelessness ¹										0.04	0.44	0.00
Resilience ¹										−0.03	0.04	−0.04
Emotional stress ¹										−0.26	0.21	−0.06
Stress control ¹										−0.09	0.19	−0.02
Adjusted R²		0.01			0.03			0.05			0.06

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, †10% significant.
Abbreviations: SED Sedentary, PA Physical activity, FFQ Food Frequency Questionnaire.
¹ = controlled for sex.
^a Sedentary behaviour at weekdays & weekends; ^b Physical activity in the previous week.

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