The influence of parenting style on health related behavior of children: findings from the ChiBS study

Philips, Nele; Sioen, Isabelle; Michels, Nathalie; Sleddens, Ester; De Henauw, Stefaan

doi:10.1186/s12966-014-0095-y

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficients (R) between the five different parenting constructs and characteristics of the child, the parents as well as health behavior of the child (n = 288)

From: The influence of parenting style on health related behavior of children: findings from the ChiBS study

	Nurturance		Structure		Behavioral control		Coercive control		Overprotection
	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p
Family characteristics
BMI mother (kg/m ² )	−0.019	0.732	0.056	0.29	0.138	0.015	−0.016	0.784	0.159	0.050
BMI father(kg/m ² )	−0.07	0.238	−0.016	0.796	0.019	0.747	−0.027	0.652	0.076	0.205
Child characteristics
BMI child (z-score)	−0.045	0.426	0.007	0.905	0.059	0.298	−0.039	0.491	0.062	0.271
Fat percentage child (%)	−0.072	0.203	−0.008	0.885	−0.047	0.403	−0.012	0.83	0.084	0.139
Age (years)	−0.006	0.92	0.074	0.2	0.026	0.642	0.045	0.425	−0.02	0.723
Food consumption
Frequency of snacks consumption (times/week)	0.01	0.863	0.046	0.426	0.087	0.128	0.013	0.827	0.011	0.851
Frequency of sweet food consumption (times/week)	0.006	0.913	−0.046	0.422	0.075	0.187	0.139	0.014	0.055	0.336
Frequency of fatty food consumption (times/week)	−0.038	0.504	−0.013	0.821	0.067	0.238	0.082	0.151	−0.053	0.355
Frequency of Fruit & vegetable consumption (times/week)	−0.003	0.96	−0.067	0.257	−0.014	0.806	0.08	0.169	−0.151	0.009
Frequency of fruit consumption (times/week)	0.041	0.481	−0.04	0.492	0.017	0.771	0.084	0.142	−0.094	0.102
Frequency of vegetables consumption (times/week)	−0.065	0.258	−0.054	0.357	−0.043	0.454	0.026	0.657	−0.149	0.009
Frequency of soft drinks consumption (times/week)	−0.026	0.651	−0.124	0.031	0.019	0.741	0.096	0.093	0.123	0.031
Frequency of light soft drinks consumption (times/week)	0.036	0.528	−0.079	0.17	0.172	0.002	0.101	0.076	0.091	0.113
Frequency of non-light soft drinks consumption (times/week)	−0.055	0.338	−0.109	0.058	−0.083	0.144	0.059	0.303	0.101	0.076
Emotional eating	−0.059	0.300	−0.172	0.003	−0.166	0.004	0.014	0.81	−0.016	0.778
External eating	−0.073	0.561	−0.109	0.029	−0.036	0.307	0.078	0.388	−0.03	0.189
Restraint eating	−0.033	0.203	−0.126	0.059	−0.058	0.533	0.049	0.173	0.075	0.605
Physical activity and sedentary behavior
Physical activity (hours/week)	0.027	0.645	0.047	0.423	−0.032	0.583	−0.031	0.598	0.048	0.416
Sedentary behavior (hours/week)	−0.005	0.929	−0.054	0.347	−0.027	0.636	0.057	0.317	0.002	0.978
Sleep duration
Sleep quantity (hours/night)	−0.014	0.806	0.013	0.82	−0.034	0.545	−0.171	0.002	0.002	0.967

R: Pearson’s correlation coefficient; p: p-value; the correlations with a p-value <0.05 are indicated in bold.

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