The relationship of parenting style and eating behavior in preschool children

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Regression coefficients of the relationships of positive parenting styles (predictors, in bold type) on the child’s eating behavior

Effect	Estimate	SE	z-value¹	p-value	Standardized estimate
Parental involvement
Food responsiveness	−0.050	0.067	−0.753	.0451	−0.044
Emotional overeating	−0.096	0.085	−1.129	0.259	−0.075
Enjoyment of food	−0.089	0.082	−1.076	0.282	−0.066
Satiety responsiveness	−0.054	0.084	−0.638	0.524	−0.043
Slowness in eating	0.021	0.078	0.274	0.784	0.017
Emotional undereating	−0.064	0.094	−0.677	0.498	−0.042
Food fussiness	−0.104	0.084	−1.245	0.213	−0.071
Positive parenting
Food responsiveness	−0.142	0.075	−1.890	0.059	−0.111
Emotional overeating	−0.234	0.096	−2.441	0.015	−0.160*
Enjoyment of food	−0.157	0.087	−1.805	0.071	−0.103
Satiety responsiveness	0.020	0.088	0.233	0.816	0.014
Slowness in eating	0.040	0.082	0.481	0.630	0.028
Emotional undereating	0.028	0.097	0.283	0.777	0.016
Food fussiness	−0.117	0.089	−1.318	0.188	−0.070
Responsible parenting
Food responsiveness	−0.014	0.077	−0.187	0.852	−0.010
Emotional overeating	−0.036	0.100	−0.360	0.719	−0.022
Enjoyment of food	−0.194	0.089	−2.169	0.030	−0.112*
Satiety responsiveness	−0.007	0.097	−0.074	0.941	−0.004
Slowness in eating	−0.078	0.091	−0.857	0.391	−0.048
Emotional undereating	0.017	0.111	0.152	0.879	0.009
Food fussiness	−0.070	0.096	−0.724	0.469	−0.037

Cohen's classification for effect sizes are .1 to be small, .3 to be medium, and .5 to be large.
*p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001.
¹Statistic for the test of regression coefficients against 0

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