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Table 3 Associations between Parental Self-Efficacy and Parent-Reported Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviors in Children (nā€‰=ā€‰698)

From: Development and psychometric evaluation of a context-based parental self-efficacy instrument for healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors in preschool children

Dietary and physical activity behaviors

Parental self-efficacy

Total scale

Factor 1a

Factor 2

Factor 3

Factor 4

Vegetables

.22**

.20**

.19**

.15**

.19**

Fruits

.19**

.13**

.13**

.14**

.17**

White fish (e.g., cod)

.14**

.16**

.08*

.10**

.10**

Oily fish (e.g., salmon)

.16**

.17**

.10**

.13**

.15**

Fruit juice

.00

-.04

-.06

.02

.04

Fruit drink (w/ sugar)

-.03

-.02

-.08*

-.02

-.02

Fruit drink (w/o sugar)

.00

-.02

-.02

.04

.02

Soft drink (w/ sugar)

-.09*

-.12**

-.11**

-.01

-.06

Soft drink (w/o sugar)

-.03

-.08*

-.06

.00

.01

Chocolate drink

-.03

-.04

-.08*

-.03

.02

Milk (0,5Ā % fat)

.09*

.00

.11**

.07

.11**

Milk (1,5Ā % fat)

-.04

-.02

-.02

-.01

-.05

Milk (3Ā % fat)

-.01

.02

-.03

-.04

-.01

Ice cream

-.09*

-.05

-.16**

-.01

-.06

Candy

-.09*

-.06

-.17**

-.03

-.07

Cake/cookies/buns

-.13**

-.14**

-.11*

-.10*

-.08*

Chips/popcorn/cheese doodles

-.09*

-.11**

-.17**

-.02

-.03

Hamburger/pizza/Doner kebab

-.19**

-.19**

-.17**

-.12**

-.13**

French fries

-.17**

-.18**

-.15**

-.14**

-.09*

Play outside (weekdays)

.21**

.11**

.10*

.22**

.21**

Play outside (weekends)

.25**

.06

.11**

.32**

.29**

Play electronic games (weekdays)

-.16**

-.15**

-.17**

-.10**

-.13**

Play electronic games (weekends)

-.18**

-.12**

-.13**

-.17**

-.17**

Watch shows or movies (weekdays)

-.12**

-.06

-.10**

-.13**

-.10**

Watch shows or movies (weekends)

-.21**

-.11**

-.15**

-.20**

-.18**

Organized leisure time activity (Tuesdays)b

.16

.19*

.10

.12

.15

Organized leisure time activity (Saturdays)c

.14

.04

.06

.22**

.16

  1. All correlations are Spearman
  2. aFactor labels. Contextual circumstances that 1) Facilitate parental self-efficacy (PSE) for promoting healthy dietary behaviors in children; 2) Impede PSE for promoting healthy dietary behaviors in children; 3) Facilitate PSE for promoting healthy PA behaviors in children; and 4) Impede PSE for promoting healthy PA behaviors in children
  3. b nā€‰=ā€‰141
  4. c nā€‰=ā€‰151
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