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

Table 4 Multiple linear regression analysis predicting BMI (kg/m ²⁾ from demographic factors, life events, food habits, physical activity and psychological factors in a Portuguese sample (N = 540)

Demographics	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
Demographics	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta	B	SE	Beta
Sex	-0.55	0.57	-0.06	-0.67	0.58	-0.08	-0.90	0.66	-0.11	-0.78	0.70	-0.09
Working Status	0.01	0.63	0.00	-0.17	0.64	-0.02	-0.16	0.64	-.018	-0.10	0.65	-0.01
Age (yrs)	-0.05	0.04	-0.14	-0.06	0.04	-0.15	-0.07	0.04	-0.19†	-0.08	0.04	-0.22*
Ed (yrs)	-0.12	0.17	-0.07	-0.10	0.17	-0.05	-0.12	0.17	-0.06	-0.16	0.18	-0.08
Age by*sex	0.06	0.05	0.12	0.06	0.05	0.12	0.07	0.05	0.14	0.09	0.05	0.17
Ed (yrs) by*sex	0.24	0.25	0.08	0.25	0.26	0.09	0.29	0.26	0.10	0.29	0.28	0.10
Life Events
Relationships				-0.49	2.02	-0.03	-0.42	2.03	-0.02	-0.60	2.11	-0.03
Financial				1.24	2.51	0.05	1.55	2.54	0.06	1.32	2.67	0.05
Illness				1.28	0.70	0.12†	1.10	0.70	0.11	1.10	0.72	0.11 †
Bereavement				-0.65	0.76	-0.05	-0.56	0.76	-0.05	-0.62	0.80	-0.05
Employment				-0.98	1.23	-0.05	−1.05	1.23	-0.06	−1.01	1.27	-0.05
Lifestyle
SED activity 1^a							0.18	0.34	0.04	0.28	0.21	0.09
PA activity 2^b							-0.07	0.32	-0.02†	-0.52	0.30	-0.12 †
FFQ (alcohol)							-0.17	0.33	-0.03	0.29	0.36	0.06
FFQ (unhealthy)							0.30	0.20	0.10	-0.06	0.33	-0.01
FFQ (healthy)							-0.50	0.28	-0.11	-0.16	0.35	-0.03
Wellbeing
General Mood										-0.19	0.31	-0.07
Variable Mood										0.03	0.21	0.01
Intense Mood										-0.03	0.25	-0.01
Hopelessness										0.06	0.38	0.02
Resilience										0.09	0.05	0.25*
Emotional Stress										0.36	0.19	0.24 †
Stress control										0.57	0. 40	0.04
General mood ¹										0.21	0.44	0.05
Variable mood ¹										0.58	2.97	0.19
Intense mood ¹										0.24	0.34	0.07
Hopelessness ¹										−0.81	0.61	−0.12
Resilience¹										−0.11	0.07	−0.22†
Emotional stress ¹										−0.15	0.24	−0.04
Stress control ¹										−0.57	0. 40	−0.17
Adjusted R ²		0.01			0.01			0.00			0.01

*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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