Determinants of fruit and vegetable intake among 11-year-old schoolchildren in a country of traditionally low fruit and vegetable consumption

Table 4 Hierarchical regression model explaining the variance in children's fruit intake (n = 765).

	step 1		step 2		step 3		step 4
	Beta	P-value	Beta	P-value	Beta	P-value	Beta	P-value
background variables
Gender	0.12	< 0.01	0.10	< 0.01	0.08	0.02	0.03	0.38
Residence	0.03	0.46	0.05	0.15	0.05	0.12	0.03	0.32
SES mother	0.07	0.08	0.06	0.11	0.06	0.11	0.01	0.71
SES father	0.06	0.09	0.04	0.25	0.04	0.23	0.04	0.22
perceived physical-environmental
Availability at home			0.27	< 0.01	0.20	< 0.01	0.08	0.04
Availability at school			0.00	0.90	-0.01	0.74	-0.01	0.77
perceived socio-environmental
Modelling					0.14	< 0.01	0.07	> 0.05
Active encouragement					-0.11	0.01	-0.14	< 0.01
Demand family rule					0.21	< 0.01	0.16	< 0.01
Allow family rule					-0.01	0.83	-0.04	0.25
personal
Knowledge							0.17	< 0.01
Attitudes							0.04	0.27
Liking							0.12	0.01
Self-efficacy							0.23	< 0.01
Preferences							0.12	< 0.01
Perceived barriers							-0.05	0.17
adjusted R²	0.019		0.088		0.130		0.312
R² change	0.024	< 0.01	0.071	< 0.01	0.046	< 0.01	0.185	< 0.01

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