The relationship between appetite and food preferences in British and Australian children

Table 4 Factors associated with fruit preference^a

	Unstandardized Beta (SE)	Standardized Beta (SE)	p value	R²	sr²
GEMINI (n = 1044)^b
Enjoyment of Food	.193 (.033)	.179 (.031)	<.001	.078	.031
Food Responsiveness	.052 (.027)	.059 (.031)	.056	.039	.003
Satiety Responsiveness	-.135 (.032)	-.132 (.031)	<.001	.063	.016
Slowness in Eating	-.089 (.031)	-.088 (.031)	.005	.055	.007
Food Fussiness	-.242 (.028)	-.257 (.030)	<.001	.112	.065
NOURISH (n = 167)
Enjoyment of Food	.374 (.077)	.363 (.075)	<.001	.185	.122
Food Responsiveness	.147 (.083)	.145 (.082)	.078	.082	.018
Satiety Responsiveness	-.281 (.092)	-.240 (.079)	.003	.115	.052
Slowness in Eating	-.109 (.074)	-.115 (.079)	.102	.076	.012
Food Fussiness	-.428 (.058)	-.507 (.069)	<.001	.303	.239

^aModels adjusted for covariates as defined in Table 1 including sex, milk feeding method, age at first solids, maternal education, maternal fruit intake, maternal vegetable intake, BMI Z-score [36] and age at anthropometric measurements
^bModels also adjusted for parity and gestational age (GEMINI sample only)
Significant values (at an alpha level of p < 0.05) are bolded

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