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. 2013 Jan 18;17(5):970–978. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012005502

Table 4.

Logistic regression models predicting children's overweight status in 2009 from the parental CFQ subscale scores according to different parenting styles: parent–child pairs (n 465) from an elementary school in central Taiwan, 2008 and 2009

Authoritative parenting Authoritarian parenting Permissive parenting
Less authoritative mother More authoritative mother Less authoritarian mother More authoritarian mother Less permissive mother More permissive mother
(n 219) (n 246) (n 259) (n 206) (n 256) (n 209)
OR 95 % CI OR 95 % CI OR 95 % CI OR 95 % CI OR 95 % CI OR 95 % CI
Overweight in 2008 63·9 18·9, 216·2*** 80·0 24·3, 263·6*** 53·8 19·7, 146·7*** 90·3 22·0, 371·5*** 41·3 15·4, 110·7*** 128·7 30·1, 550·6***
CFQ subscale
Responsibility 0·85 0·69, 1·06 1·24 0·95, 1·62 0·99 0·82, 1·20 0·93 0·70, 1·29 1·17 0·93, 1·47 0·82 0·63, 1·07
Perceived child weight 1·93 1·11, 3·37* 1·64 1·09, 2·46* 1·39 0·97, 1·99 1·70 1·10, 2·64** 1·77 1·22, 2·55** 1·67 0·93, 2·99
Concern about child weight 1·06 0·87, 12·9 1·36 1·12, 1·65** 1·35 1·14, 1·6*** 1·04 0·85, 1·27 1·14 0·97, 1·35 1·35 1·06, 1·71*
Restrict 0·99 0·89, 1·10 0·95 0·84, 1·06 0·94 0·84, 1·05 0·99 0·88, 1·12 1·03 0·93, 1·14 0·94 0·82, 1·09
Pressure to eat 1·07 0·87, 1·33 0·88 0·70, 1·10 1·01 0·85, 1·20 0·99 0·79, 1·24 0·89 0·75, 1·05 1·12 0·90, 1·57
Monitoring 1·22 0·96, 1·54 0·77 0·61, 0·98* 0·86 0·71, 1·05 1·35 1·02, 1·79* 0·96 0·80, 1·16 1·06 0·81, 1·39
Perceived parent weight 0·91 0·64, 1·29 1·21 0·74, 1·97 1·15 0·81, 1·64 0·98 0·68, 1·42 0·83 0·59, 1·17 1·57 0·93, 2·66
−2 log likelihood 262·82 299·18 336·82 224·94 302·30 259·12
df 8 8 8 8 8 8

CFQ, Child Feeding Questionnaire.

Data are presented as odds ratio and 95 % confidence interval unless indicated otherwise.

*Significant at the 0·05 level.

**Significant at the 0·01 level.

***Significant at the 0·001 level.