Clustering individuals’ temporal patterns of affective states, hunger, and food craving by latent class vector-autoregression

Table 1 Differences in trait characteristics between clusters

Outcome	SS_Num	SS_Den	F	p	η²_g
Compliance	0.15	1.16	7.57	< .001 *	.12
SSES	4.11	62.77	3.63	.030 *	.06
SEES happiness	2.08	29.29	3.94	.022 *	.07
SEES anger	1.33	50.50	1.46	.236	.03
SEES anxiety	0.55	48.83	0.63	.535	.01
SEES sadness	1.61	60.57	1.47	.234	.03
DEBQ external	116.01	4104.06	1.57	.213	.03
DEBQ emotional	469.58	9104.93	2.81	.065	.05
DEBQ restrained	90.27	6021.36	0.83	.438	.02
FCQ-T-r	2017.62	16,619.16	6.74	.002 *	.11
BMI	20.34	1544.92	0.73	.484	.01

N = 114. The degrees of freedom numerator = 2 in all cases. The degrees of freedom denominator = 111 in all cases. SS_Num indicates sum of squares numerator. SS_Den indicates sum of squares denominator. η²_g indicates generalised eta-squared. Compliance completion rate of ecological momentary assessment questionnaires, SSES Salzburg Stress Eating Scale, SEES Salzburg Emotional Eating Scale, DEBQ Dutch Eating Behavior Scale, FCQ-T-r Food Cravings Questionnaire Trait reduced, BMI Body mass index. P-values with an asterisk indicate statistical significance at the p < .05 level. Outcomes written in bold indicate significant differences

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