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Table 1 Demographic variables and screening results for eating disorder tendency of the study participants

From: The cost of the perfect body: influence mechanism of internalization of media appearance ideals on eating disorder tendencies in adolescents

Variables

Groups

Sample (N = 1523)

%

Gender

Male

728

47.80

 

Female

795

52.20

Grade

Grade 7

340

22.30

 

Grade 8

285

18.70

 

Grade 9

137

9.70

 

Grade 10

291

19.10

 

Grade 11

207

13.60

 

Grade 12

263

17.30

Monthly incomea

<2000

47

3.10

 

2000–5000

301

19.80

 

5000–10,000

714

46.90

 

10,000–20,000

309

20.30

 

>20,000

152

10.00

ETA-26

0–10

1161

76.23

 

11–19

237

15.56

 

≥ 20

125

8.21

  1. a The monetary unit of income is Yuan; US$1 equals about 7.19 Yuan