Table 5.

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

	Fathers					Mothers

	Low stress (n = 286)	Moderate stress (n = 201)	High stress (n = 227)	Model 1 P_df=2	Model 2 P_df=2	Low stress (n = 152)	Moderate stress (n= 237)	High stress (n = 243)	Model 1 P_df=2	Model 2 P_df=2

	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)			Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)
Family meal frequency (times/week)	5.7 (0.19)	4.7 (0.22)	4.7 (0.21)	<0.001	0.002	5.8 (0.25)	5.2 (0.20)	4.3 (0.20)	<0.001	0.02
Percent reporting 1+/week fast food for family meals	59.0% (0.03)	64.4% (0.03)	64.8% (0.03)	0.33	0.44	59.8% (0.04)	66.9% (0.03)	63.3% (0.03)	0.36	0.37
Food preparation (total hours/week)	5.3 (0.31)	4.1 (0.37)	3.7 (0.34)	0.001	0.01	9.8 (0.54)	9.2 (0.42)	8.0 (0.43)	0.03	0.02
Encourage child's healthful eating (Range: 1–5)	2.9 (0.07)^a	2.9 (0.09)^a	2.6 (0.08)^b	0.02	0.01	3.1 (0.10)	3.0 (0.08)	3.2 (0.08)	0.10	0.05
Parents' breakfast frequency (times/week)	4.5 (0.16)^a	4.9 (0.20)^a	3.9 (0.18)^b	<0.001	0.01	4.8 (0.21)^ab	4.9 (0.16)^a	4.3 (0.16)^b	0.02	0.07
Parents' fruit and vegetable intake (servings/day)	3.5 (0.12)^a	3.3 (0.14)^ab	3.0 (0.13)^b	0.03	0.04	3.8 (0.16)^a	3.9 (0.13)^a	3.4 (0.13)^b	0.01	0.03
Parents' sugar-sweetened beverage intake (times/week)	2.4 (0.06)	2.7 (0.07)	3.0 (0.07)	0.11	0.06	1.6 (0.06)	1.7 (0.06)	2.3 (0.07)	0.007	0.29
Parents' fast food intake (times/week)	1.1 (0.04)	1.4 (0.05)	1.7 (0.04)	<0.001	<0.001	0.9 (0.05)	1.1 (0.04)	1.4 (0.04)	0.003	0.16

Notes:

Model 1 adjusted for primary parents' race/ethnicity, education, and age, language spoken in the home, and number of children in home.

Model 2 additionally adjusted for co-parents' employment status and work-life stress.

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.