Eating behaviors, dietary patterns and weight status in emerging adulthood and longitudinal associations with eating behaviors in early childhood

Table 2 Bivariate (Pearson’s) correlations between AEBQ scales and between AEBQ scales and BMI

AEBQ scales	H	FR	EOE	EF	SR	EUE	FF	SE	BMI^a
Food approach
Hunger (H)	1.00								−0.076*
Food responsiveness (FR)	0.368**	1.00							0.080*
Emotional overeating (EOE)	0.191**	0.350**	1.00						0.253**
Enjoyment of food (EF)	0.156**	0.500**	0.197**	1.00					0.095*^b
Food avoidance
Satiety responsiveness (SR)	0.090*	−0.168**	−0.131**	−0.224**	1.00				−0.144**
Emotional undereating (EUE)	0.182**	−0.027	−0.234**	−0.093*	0.330**	1.00			−0.087*
Food fussiness (FF)	0.037	−0.095*	0.054	−0.237**	0.146**	0.031	1.00		0.057^b
Slowness in eating (SE)	0.092*	−0.088*	−0.069	−0.136**	0.365**	0.196**	−0.001	1.00	−0.098**

AEBQ Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire, BMI Body mass index
^a BMI was calculated as kg/m² based on self-reported height and weight - corrected [30]. Missing values for BMI (n = 2)
^b For Enjoyment of food and Food fussiness, r values refer to Spearman correlations because these variables were not normally distributed
n = 698; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01

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