Table 4.
Pearson’s correlations between food well-being scores and psychological and eating-related variables, and their means and standard deviations.
| Mean | SD | Physical and Psychological Health | Symbolic/ Pleasure |
Total Food Well-Being | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happiness | 3.48 | 0.43 | 0.29 *** | 0.33 *** | 0.39 *** |
| Attitude toward food | |||||
| Pleasure orientation | 5.02 | 0.97 | 0.06 | 0.38 *** | 0.29 *** |
| Health orientation | 4.10 | 1.00 | 0.35 *** | 0.32 *** | 0.40 *** |
| Motivation to regulate eating behaviors | |||||
| Intrinsic motivation | 17.7 | 5.5 | 0.44 *** | 0.52 *** | 0.59 *** |
| Amotivation | 7.3 | 3.7 | −0.18 * | −0.20 ** | −0.23 ** |
| C-HEI | 54.1 | 13.6 | 0.30 *** | 0.19 ** | 0.30 *** |
| Eating behaviors | |||||
| Restraint | 6.69 | 3.89 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.07 |
| Disinhibition | 6.26 | 3.00 | −0.24 *** | 0.04 | −0.11 |
| Hunger | 5.33 | 3.38 | −0.30 *** | 0.00 | −0.16 * |
n = 203; C-HEI: Canadian adapted Healthy Eating Index. Score range: Happiness = 1 to 5; Pleasure orientation = 1 to 7; Health orientation = 1 to 7; Intrinsic motivation = 4 to 28; Amotivation = 4 to 28; C-HEI = 0 to 100; Restraint = 0 to 21; Disinhibition = 0 to 16; Hunger = 0 to 14. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.