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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eat Behav. 2011 Jul 24;12(4):277–283. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.07.010

Table 4.

Correlations between MEI and Dietary Intake Items in Sample 1B

1 2 3 4 5
Personal Negative Emotions (1) 1.00 0.34** 0.55*** 0.49*** 0.51***
Personal Well Being (2) 1.00 0.22* 0.45*** 0.39***
Disturbed Eating (3) 1.00 0.31** 0.50***
Pleasure Eating (4) 1.00 0.42***
Eating on Behalf of Others (5) 1.00
High Calorie Snack Food 0.21* 0.13 0.33** 0.13 0.13
Fruits and Vegetables 0.01 0.13 −0.04 −0.06 −0.08
Sugar Sweetened Beverages 0.06 0.12 0.14 0.04 −0.01
Fruit juice −0.05 0.02 −0.07 −0.09 −0.11
Fruit (fresh or canned, not counting juice) 0.10 0.12 0.03 −0.08 −0.10
Vegetable juice 0.01 0.05 −0.05 0.06 0.09
Green salad −0.12 −0.03 −0.09 −0.13 −0.20*
Vegetable soups or stew with vegetables 0.12 0.20* −0.05 −0.02 0.07
Vegetables (any other) 0.01 0.11 0.09 0.01 −0.01
French fries or fried potatoes 0.20* 0.11 0.13 0.09 0.08
Corn chips, potato chips, popcorn, or crackers 0.19 0.07 0.25** 0.02 0.01
Doughnuts, pastries, cake, or cookies (not low-fat) 0.12 0.03 0.35** 0.16 0.15
Diet soda 0.17 −0.08 0.20* 0.07 0.23*
Soda – not diet 0.14 0.15 0.27** 0.13 0.10
***

p ≤ .0001;

**

p ≤ .01;

*

p ≤ .05