Parental feeding practices and child weight status in Mexican American families: a longitudinal analysis

Table 4 Comparisons of models with cross-lagged effects freely estimated across child gender and models with constrained cross-lagged effects, for waist-height ratio

Model	S-Bχ ²	df	p	∆S-Bχ ²	∆df	∆p
Mothers
Restriction _Free	39.56	36	0.31
Restriction _Constrained	92.43	49	<0.001	54.57	13	<0.001
Pressure _Free	20.89	36	0.98
Pressure _Constrained	102.103	49	<0.001	67.20	13	<0.001
Control _Free	24.21	36	0.93
Control _Constrained	82.31	49	<0.01	59.40	13	<0.001
Fathers
Restriction _Free	47.06	36	0.10
Restriction _Constrained	82.90	49	<0.01	36.06	13	<0.001
Pressure _Free	38.85	36	0.34
Pressure _Constrained	97.07	49	<0.001	46.44	13	<0.001
Involvement _Free	42.65	36	0.21
Involvement_Constrained	113.24	49	<0.001	58.64	13	<0.001

Note. S-Bχ ²: Satorra-Bentler χ ² for ∆S-Bχ ²: Satorra-Bentler difference χ ²
∆df: difference in degrees of freedom between nested models
∆p: p-value for ∆S-Bχ ²

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