Table 2.

Supportive Parent Practices

Scale (# items)	Sample items	Internal Consistency α	Range for factor loadings	Mean score (SD)
Practices Supportive of Physical Activity
Explicit modeling and enjoyment of PA (10)	During a typical week, how often does your child… …hear you talk about participating in a sport or being physically active? …see you doing, or going to do, something that is physically active?	0.88	0.42–0.85	3.44 (0.75)
Verbal encouragement for PA (7)	During a typical week, how often do you… …say things to encourage your child to spend less time being sedentary? …tell your child how sedentary habits can be unhealthy?	0.77	0.41–0.87	3.81 (0.85)
Logistic support for sports (3)	How active are you in enrolling your child in sports? For how many activities have you or other adult paid fees?	0.69	0.72–0.82	2.26 (1.01)
Logistic support for active play (4)	During a typical week, how often do you take your child to the park to play? During the last month, how many times have you taken your child to play at a park?	0.65	0.45–0.88	4.67 (1.15)
Importance and value of PA (3)	How important is it for your child to be physically active when s/he grows up? How valuable is it to you that your child be physically active?	0.70	0.55–0.89	4.47 (0.53)
Support/reinforcement from other adults (3)	Other adults in my child’s life make it hard to… …get my child to be physically active. …enforce household rules about TV viewing.	0.54	0.39–0.67	4.14 (0.68)
Practices Supportive of Screen Time
Exposure to TV (3)	How many days per week does your family have the television on during… …breakfast? …the evening meal?	0.66	0.50–0.79	2.55 (1.68)
Explicit modeling and enjoyment of screen time (6)	During a typical week, how often do you watch TV or videos with your child? I enjoy watching TV/movies with my child.	0.76	0.54–0.67	3.73 (0.71)

^*Indicates items that were reverse scored