Table 3.

Component loadings of principal component analysis on energy balance-related behavior

	Pattern
	1	2	3	4
Activity-related behavior a
Active means of transport	0.045	0.428	0.478	−0.341
School sports	−0.045	0.552	−0.154	−0.223
Sports at a club	0.012	0.650	0.167	0.045
Playing outside	0.361	−0.309	0.322	−0.390
Watching television	0.425	0.386	−0.060	0.246
Computer use	0.081	0.458	−0.023	0.344
Eating routine
Meal frequencyb	−0.182	−0.059	0.476	0.227
Take-out meal frequencyb	0.074	−0.046	0.089	0.497
Snacks frequencyb	0.491	−0.098	0.231	0.064
Duration of mealsc	−0.104	−0.004	−0.008	−0.640
Eating togetherd	−0.008	0.041	0.696	−0.003
Eating at the tabled	−0.717	−0.018	0.334	−0.013
Eating with television ond	0.782	0.115	−0.150	0.097
Variance Explained (%)e	17.2	9.9	9.2	7.9

Notes: Results of oblique principal component analysis. Bold component loadings are absolute loadings >0.400 and are thus considered part of the pattern.

Pattern 1: Television–Snacking pattern.

Pattern 2: Sports–Computer pattern.

Pattern 3: Traditional Family pattern.

Pattern 4: ‘Fast’ Food pattern.

^a Minutes per week.

^b Number per week.

^c Minutes per meal.

^d Percentage of total number of meals.

^e Total variance in the behavioral variables explained by the 4 patterns is 44.1%.