Table 2.
Questionnaire items, with their factor loadings, for assessing social support for healthy eating in a French-Canadian population
| Factor 1* | Factor 2* | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. […] proposed that we eat healthier | 0·66/0·40 | |
| 2. […] minimized the importance of consuming healthy foods | 0·59/0·66 | |
| 3. […] made positive comments on my consumption of healthy foods | 0·70/0·59 | |
| 4. […] ate healthy foods in front of me | 0·83/0·67 | |
| 5. […] made negative comments when I was eating less healthily | 0·47/0·45 | |
| 6. […] encouraged me to eat healthy foods when I was tempted to eat junk foods | 0·55/0·30 | |
| 7. […] ate junk foods in front of me | 0·35/0·49 | |
| 8. […] made positive comments on healthy foods’ taste | 0·84/0·79 | |
| 9. […] preferred to eat alone than with me† | – | – |
| 10. […] hampered my efforts to eat more healthily | 0·67/0·72 | |
| 11. […] encouraged me to buy healthy foods | 0·86/0·73 | |
| 12. […] gave me ideas to eat more healthy foods | 0·78/0·67 | |
| 13. […] said that healthy foods do not taste good | 0·76/0·59 | |
| 14. […] contributed to create a pleasant atmosphere at mealtime | 0·82/0·52 | |
| 15. […] insisted for me to eat junk foods | 0·68/0·66 | |
| 16. […] took their meals with me | 0·80/0·46 | |
| 17. […] made negative comments on my healthy foods consumption | 0·68/0·74 | |
| 18. […] praised the advantages of eating healthy foods | 0·87/0·81 | |
| 19. […] criticized the healthy foods that I served them | 0·73/0·63 | |
| 20. […] contributed to create a tense atmosphere at mealtime | 0·65/0·33 | |
| 21. […] proposed that we eat in front of the television† | – | – |
| 22. […] listened to my opinions regarding healthy eating even when they disagree | 0·71/0·48 |
The French version of the instrument was validated. All items were translated from French to English using the back-translation procedure and should not be used in their English version without validation.
*
Factor loadings are presented as: ‘home’/‘outside of home’. Close others at ‘home’ are defined as people living with you (e.g. family members, partner, roommate). Close others ‘outside of home’ are defined as people with whom you share meals, but who do not live with you (e.g. friends, colleagues.)
†
Items that were removed after the exploratory factor analysis.