The feeding practices and structure questionnaire: construction and initial validation in a sample of Australian first-time mothers and their 2-year olds

Table 3 Descriptive statistics, measures of internal consistency and goodness-of-fit indices for the 9 newly formed feeding practices scales – n = 462 Australian first-time mothers of 24-month-olds

Factor	No. of items	Unweighted composite scores		Weighted composite scores		Reliability		Goodness-of-fit indices
Factor	No. of items	Observed range	Mean (SD)	Observed range	Mean (SD)	Coefficient H	Cronbach’s α	χ²/df	RMSEA	CFI	TLI
Distrust in appetite	4	1.00-4.25	2.33 (0.73)	1.00-4.44	2.42 (0.75)	0.72	0.63	4.26	.08	.98	.93
Reward for behaviour	6	1.00-4.33	1.70 (0.69)	1.00-4.43	1.66 (0.68)	0.89	0.86	3.26	.07	.99	.97
Reward for eating	6	1.00-4.83	1.67 (0.70)	1.01-4.85	1.70 (0.74)	0.91	0.89	3.29*	.07	.99	.98
Persuasive feeding	6	1.00-4.50	2.52 (0.67)	1.00-4.29	2.38 (0.68)	0.76	0.73	2.02*	.05	.98	.97
Covert restriction	4	1.00-5.00	3.19 (0.86)	1.00-5.00	3.26 (0.91)	0.84	0.80	2.79*	.06	.99	.98
Overt restriction	4	1.00-5.00	3.38 (0.90)	1.00-5.00	3.43 (0.90)	0.62	0.61	1.57*	.04	.99	.98
Structured meal setting	4	1.75-5.00	4.08 (0.67)	1.63-5.00	4.05 (0.68)	0.80	0.79	2.48	.06	.97	.96
Structured meal timing	3	2.00-5.00	3.86 (0.60)	1.94-5.00	3.90 (0.60)	0.70	0.68
Family meal setting	3	1.00-5.00	3.93 (1.09)	1.00-4.95	3.88 (1.17)	0.96	0.87

Note: The possible range is 1 to 5 for each factor.
Goodness-of-fit for the ‘Structured Meal Setting’, ‘Structured Meal Timing’ and ‘Family Meal Setting’ factors was assessed simultaneously because of the low number of items for 2/3 of these congeneric models.
*The congeneric model was non-significant (i.e., p > 0.05), based on the Bollen-Stine bootstrapped chi-square.

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