Dental health between self-perception, clinical evaluation and body image dissatisfaction – a cross-sectional study in mixed dentition pre-pubertal children

Table 3 General linear model (GLM) for dependent variable body dissatisfaction level by gender, BMI categories and interaction of gender and BMI categories (N = 710 participants)

Variables	Categories		Mean body dissatisfaction level +/− SD	Significance	Partial Eta Squared
Gender	male (375)		0.49 +/− 0.889	0.548	0.001
Gender	female (335)		0.44 +/− 0.852	0.548	0.001
BMI categories	normal weight (548)		0.39 +/− 0.853	< 0.001	0.031
	overweight (118)		0.68 +/− 0.856^*
	obese (44)		0.93 +/− 0.925^*
Gender^* BMI categories	male	normal weight (286)	0.42 +/− 0.870	0.578	0.002
		overweight (54)	0.65 +/− 0.894
		obese (35)	0.89 +/− 0.932
	female	normal weight (262)	0.35 +/− 0.835
		overweight (64)	0.70 +/− 0.830
		obese (9)	1.11 +/− 0.928

Note: GLM dependent variable Body dissatisfaction levels, F(5) = 5.213, p < 0.001, partial eta squared = 0.036
^*mean body dissatisfaction significantly higher in overweight (p = 0.003) and obese (p = 0.001) compared with normal weight children, results adjusted by Sidak method for multiple comparisons

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