New measures to assess the “Other” three pillars of food security–availability, utilization, and stability

Table 4 Spearman’s correlation coefficients for assessing convergent and discriminant validity of the new measures

	Food Insecurity^A	General Health	Fruits and Vegetables	Scratch Meals	Fast Food Meals	Processed Meals	Sports Escapism
Chronic (n = 445)	0.497*	-0.162*	-0.182*	-0.195*	-0.061	0.164*	-0.014
Seasonal (n = 445)	0.269*	-0.029	-0.114	-0.092	-0.001	-0.063	0.042
Intramonth (n = 445)	0.257*	-0.042	-0.058	-0.023	-0.016	0.009	0.077
Intermittent (n = 445)	0.134	-0.039	-0.084	-0.094	0.001	0.075	0.006
Utilization Barriers (n = 428)	0.484*	-0.195*	-0.258*	-0.273*	0.015	0.177*	-0.006
Perceived Limited Availability, Stores (n = 334)	0.342*	-0.167	-0.188*	-0.265*	0.106	0.166	0.081
Perceived Limited Availability, Pantries (n = 249)	0.248*	-0.099	-0.052	-0.017	0.144	0.113	0.118

A: Scored as a 4-point ordinal variable based on increasing categories of food insecurity (i.e., 0 = “High food security” to 3 = “Very low food security”)
* = Statistically significant at the Bonferroni adjusted 0.001 alpha level (i.e., p < 0.001)

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