Study of the effect of family communication and function, and satisfaction with body image, on psychological well-being of obese girls: the mediating role of self-esteem and depression

Table 1 The descriptive statistics for independent, mediator and dependent variables among obese and overweight girls

Variables	Descriptive statistics
	Mean	Std. deviation	Correlations among variables
	Mean	Std. deviation	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Body image	6.26	3.45	–
2. Depression	42.79	10.16	− 0.26**	–
3. Self- esteem	30.24	6.39	0.24**	− 0.53**	–
4. Family communication	17.63	4.74	0.77	− 0.35**	0.43**	–
5. Family function	35.20	5.94	0.15^*	− 0.47**	0.53**	0.44**	–
6. Psychological well-being	77.06	12.51	0.09	− 0.53**	0.60**	0.47**	0.54**	–

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