Table 2.
Correlations between eating in emotional situations (EES), eating behaviors, and food intake among low-income Latino children (n = 159), in addition to the means and standard deviations (sd) of these variables among the boys (n = 71) and girls (n = 88)
| Emotion-drivena EES
|
Context-drivenb EES
|
Total EES
|
Mean (sd)c
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
| Uncontrollable eating | .36** | .33** | .44*** | .31** | .44*** | .35** | 1.4 (0.6) | 1.2 (0.5) |
| External eatingd | .16 | .25 | .25 | .57*** | .23 | .45** | 1.4 (0.6) | 1.1 (0.4) |
| Fruit intake | .02 | .01 | .01 | .09 | .02 | .05 | 3.4 (1.1) | 3.3 (1.2) |
| Vegetable intake | −.04 | .004 | .04 | .03 | −.01 | .02 | 2.6 (1.1) | 2.6 (1.0) |
| Junk food intakee | .42* | .06 | .45** | .12 | .46** | .09 | 2.0 (0.8) | 1.9 (0.8) |
| Emotion-driven EES | 1.9 (1.9) | 1.6 (1.9) | ||||||
| Context-driven EES | 1.5 (1.6) | 1.5 (1.4) | ||||||
| Total EES | 3.4 (3.2) | 3.1 (3.1) | ||||||
p < 0.05;
p < 0.01;
p < 0.001
Emotion-driven EES refers to eating in emotional situations that are driven by psychological states such as loneliness and anger.
Context-driven EES refers to eating in emotional situations that driven by contextual cues such as receiving a bad grade or preparing for a hard test.
No significant mean differences by gender were observed.
Only data for 70 children were available for this scale (boys: n = 36, girls: n = 34) because the scale was only included on version 2 of the student survey.
Only data for 89 children were available for this scale (boys: n = 35, girls: n = 54) because the scale was only included on version 1 of the student survey.