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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Oct 8;18(4):818–825. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.324

Table 3. Results of Parenting Style and Parenting Practices Independent Relationships with Adolescent BMI. Adjusted for Ethnicity/Race, SES and age (maternal and paternal predictors of either style or practice are simultaneously included).

DF F Value p Parenting Style Adjusted Mean Parenting Practices Adjusted Mean
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Dependent Variable: BMI
Daughters
 Mother Parenting Style 3 .52 .6671 22.2 22.2 22.5 22.4
 Father Parenting Style 3 .80 .4943 22.3 22.2 22.0 22.5
 Mother Parenting Practices 3 1.82 .1419 22.3 21.9 21.5 22.5
 Father Parenting Practices 3 2.65 .0474 22.3 21.6a 21.7b 22.7a,b
Sons
 Mother Parenting Style 3 2.80 .0389 22.1a 22.8a,b 22.3 22.1b
 Father Parenting Style 3 1.66 .1735 22.4 22.0 22.3 22.6
 Mother Parenting Practices 3 3.12 .0251 22.4a 21.6b 23.0b,c 21.1a,c
 Father Parenting Practices 3 1.49 .2165 22.3 22.0 22.8 22.8

Key: Parenting Style: 1 = Authoritative, 2 = Authoritarian, 3 = Permissive, 4 = Neglectful Parenting Styles.

Parenting Practices: 1 = Modeling & Encouraging, 2= Modeling Only, Not Encouraging, 3 = Encouraging Only, Not Modeling, 4 = No Modeling or Encouraging.

Note: Means in rows sharing superscripts are significantly different at p < .05. For all means, higher means indicate higher BMI.