Table 2.
Mean salience scores for a seven cluster solution using K-means cluster analysis. *
| Food Category | Cluster 1 (n=9) | Cluster 2 (n=4) | Cluster 3 (n=3) | Cluster 4 (n=2) | Cluster 5 (n=9) | Cluster 6 (n=7) | Cluster 7 (n=8) | ** Sig. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meal/time | 12.8 | 10.5 | 13.0 | 14.5 | 11.8 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 0.31 |
| Routine | 13.4 | 10.8 | 10.7 | 6.5 | 8.2 | 1.6 | 10.1 | 0.00 |
| Meal component | 1.4 | 7.5 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 6.7 | 11.3 | 7.4 | 0.00 |
| Preference | 2.9 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.03 |
| Well-being | 1.0 | 7.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 4.0 | .4 | 1.6 | 0.00 |
| People | .7 | .3 | 6.0 | .0 | 1.7 | .3 | .4 | 0.00 |
| Location | 1.1 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | .9 | 0.03 |
| Source | .7 | .3 | 3.7 | 8.5 | 1.2 | 2.9 | .6 | 0.00 |
| Convenience | .7 | .5 | 3.7 | .0 | 7.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.00 |
| Food group | .1 | 2.0 | .0 | .0 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 7.1 | 0.00 |
| Physical characteristics | .1 | .5 | .0 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 1.7 | .5 | 0.08 |
| Nutrient composition | .0 | 1.5 | .0 | .0 | .1 | .4 | 1.4 | 0.27 |
*
Cells include mean salience scores for each food category of participants included in the cluster.
**
Significance for comparison of mean salience scores using one-way-analysis of variance across seven clusters.