Table 3.

Correlation of Parental Strategies with Children’s Eating Compliance and Eating Refusal

Type of Strategy	Correlation of Frequency of Use and Child Eating (n = 117)
	Eating compliance	Eating refusal
Neutral prompts	.65*	.16
Pressure/Demand to eat	.39*	.67*
Reasoning	.32*	.23*
Offer of food rewards	.27*	.09
Praise	.31*	.05
Food restraint (portion control)	-.04	-.06
Threat to withhold food	.13	.14
Threat to withdraw play privileges	.09	.67*
Offer of play rewards	.28*	.18*
Average of all strategies per meal	.69*	.63*

NOTE: * = p < 0.05