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

Table 5 Factors associated with noncore food preference^a

	Unstandardized Beta (SE)	Standardized Beta (SE)	p value	R²	sr²
GEMINI (n = 1044)^b
Enjoyment of Food	.049 (.022)	.071 (.031)	.023	.032	.005
Food Responsiveness	.056 (.017)	.101 (.031)	.001	.037	.010
Satiety Responsiveness	-.026 (.021)	-.039 (.032)	.213	.029	.001
Slowness in Eating	-.017 (.020)	-.026 (.031)	.400	.028	.001
Food Fussiness	-.022 (.019)	-.036 (.031)	.251	.029	.001
NOURISH (n = 167)
Enjoyment of Food	.075 (.044)	.137 (.080)	.089	.062	.017
Food Responsiveness	.114 (.044)	.212 (.082)	.010	.084	.041
Satiety Responsiveness	.032 (.051)	.052 (.082)	.528	.047	.002
Slowness in Eating	-.021 (.040)	-.042 (.080)	.603	.046	.002
Food Fussiness	-.065 (.036)	-.145 (.080)	.072	.064	.020

^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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