Table 3.

Frequency and characteristics of family meals, encouragement of children's healthful eating, and dietary behavior modeling by parents' work-life stress among full-study sample.

	Fathers' work-life stress				Mothers' work-life stress

	Low (n = 358)	Moderate (n = 250)	High (n = 269)	P_df=2	Low (n = 561)	Moderate (n = 335)	High (n = 370)	P_df=2

	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)		Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)
Family meal Frequency (times/week)	5.7 (0.17)^a	4.7 (0.19)^b	4.1 (0.19)^c	<0.001	5.5 (0.18)^a	4.7 (0.12)^b	4.0 (0.16)^c	<0.001
Percent reporting 1+/week fast food for family meals	61.2% (0.03)	62.7% (0.03)	64.0% (0.03)	0.78	63.3% (0.03)	65.2%(0.02)	65.9% (0.03)	0.78
Food preparation (hours/week)	5.5 (0.30)^a	4.7 (0.35)^b	3.9 (0.34)^b	0.002	9.2 (0.37)	8.9 (0.25)	8.2 (0.33)	0.11
Encourage child's healthful eating (Range: 1–5)	2.9 (0.07)^a	2.9 (0.08)^a	2.7 (0.07)^b	0.01	3.0 (0.07)^a	3.0 (0.05)^ab	3.2 (0.07)^b	0.03
Parents' breakfast frequency (times/week)	4.6 (0.15)^a	4.8 (0.17)^a	4.1 (0.17)^b	0.01	4.5 (0.15)^a	4.5 (0.10)^ab	4.2 (0.13)^b	0.17
Parents' fruit and vegetable intake (servings/day)	3.5 (0.11)^a	3.4 (0.13)^a	3.1 (0.12)^b	0.03	3.9 (0.12)^a	3.7 (0.08)^b	3.4 (0.11)^b	0.03
Parents' sugar-sweetened beverage intake (times/week)	2.6 (0.05)	2.7 (0.06)	3.1 (0.06)	0.09	2.1 (0.05)	2.1 (0.04)	2.4 (0.05)	0.18
Parents' fast food intake (times/week)	1.2 (0.04)^a	1.4 (0.04)^a	1.8 (0.04)^b	0.002	1.1 (0.04)^a	1.3 (0.02)^b	1.5 (0.03)^b	<0.001

Notes:

Models adjusted for relationship status, race/ethnicity, education, age, language spoken at home, and number of children in home.

Square-root transformed variables used for sugar-sweetened beverage intake and fast food intake.

Adjusted means with different superscripts are statistically different using a p value of p < 0.05.