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Table 1 Cronbach’s alpha for latent factors in the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire, Child Feeding Questionnaire and Lifestyle Behavior Checklist

From: Picky eating in Swedish preschoolers of different weight status: application of two new screening cut-offs

 

Alpha

No items

Child eating behavior questionnaire (CEBQ) Scale 1–5

 Food fussiness

0.88

6

 Enjoyment of food

0.87

3

 Emotional overeating

0.77

4

 Satiety responsivenessa

0.73

4

 Slowness in eating

0.80

4

 Desire to drink

0.84

3

 Emotional undereating

0.79

4

 Food responsiveness

0.83

5

Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) Scale 1–5

 Perceived responsibility

0.82

3

 Perceived parental weight

0.67

4

 Perceived child weight

0.74

3

 Concern about child weight

0.88

3

 Restrictionc

0.82

6

 Pressure to eat

0.68

4

 Monitoring

0.77

3

Lifestyle behavior checklist (LBC) Scale 1–7b

 Over eating

0.89

9

 Physical activity

0.89

3

 Emotional correlates of being overweight

0.74

3

 Misbehavior in relation to food

0.78

2

 Screen time

0.72

2

  1. a In accordance with a previous validation study, one item was excluded from the factor satiety responsivess in the CEBQ [31]. Cronbach’s alpha with all items were 0.73
  2. b Factor structure according to [39]. In accordance with a previous validation, six item from the original LBC scale was omitted (3, 4, 7, 13, 23, 24) and two items were excluded from the factor PA constructing the separate factor ST [39]
  3. c In accordance with a previous validation study, two items were excluded from the factor restriction in the CFQ [30]. Cronbach’s alpha with all items were 0.80