Do physical activity and screen time mediate the association between European fathers’ and their children’s weight status? Cross-sectional data from the Feel4Diabetes-study

Table 2 Bivariate correlations among fathers’ and children’s PA, ST and BMI

	PA father	PA child	ST father	ST child	BMI father	BMI child
PA child	0.386^c
ST father	−0.004	− 0.008
ST child	0.049	−0.035	0.421^c
BMI father	−0.116^c	−0.048	− 0.084^b	0.070^a
BMI child	−0.013	−0.075^a	0.030	0.074^a	0.285^c
Mother BMI	−0.049	−0.033	− 0.101 ^b	0.028	0.157 ^c	0.220 ^c
Father age	−0.105 ^b	−0.038	− 0.032	0.024	0.054	−0.009
Child age	0.100 ^b	0.035	0.046	0.131 ^c	−0.015	−0.042
Child sex	−0.031	−0.079 ^a	0.005	−0.023	0.038	0.035

Note. ^acorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level, ^bcorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level, ^ccorrelation is significant at the 0.001 level

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