Table 5.

Association Between Responsibility Attributions and Policy Support,^a Controlling for External Attributions of Responsibility and Adjusted for Sociodemographic Characteristics, ^b 2012 Policy Support Survey (n = 408)

	Parental	External
	Responsibility	Responsibilityc
	Coef. (SE)	Coef. (SE)
Policy	p-value	p-value
Require public schools to set a	0.63 (0.14)	0.42 (0.09)
minimum requirement of 20 minutes of daily physical activity for students.	<0.001	<0.001
Require school districts to	0.36 (0.12)	0.36 (0.10)
prohibit bullying on and off school grounds, including through electronic media, and to develop rules for punishing bullies.	0.004	<0.001
Prohibit schools from selling	0.32 (0.16)	0.85 (0.10)
fast food and sodas in public school cafeterias or school stores.	0.05	<0.001
Allow local school boards to	−0.20 (0.09)	0.13 (0.10)
raise funds by selling space for advertising food and other products on school grounds and buses.	0.04	0.21
Require schools to measure	−0.12 (0.09)	0.49 (0.10)
each student's body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight, and to report the results confidentially to the student's parents each year.	0.21	<0.001
Prohibit advertising of food	0.01 (0.12)	0.75 (0.10)
high in fat and sugar during television programs watched primarily by children.	0.94	<0.001
Require a penny-an-ounce tax	−0.35 (0.09)	0.54 (0.10)
on sugar-sweetened drinks that would add 12 cents to the cost of a 12-ounce can of soda.	<0.001	<0.001
Prohibit fast-food companies	−0.16 (0.09)	0.54 (0.10)
from including toys in children's meals.	0.08	<0.001
Provide incentives to open and	0.06 (0.14)	0.49 (0.09)
sustain full-service grocery stores in communities with limited access to healthy foods.	0.64	<0.001
Regulate the nutritional	0.19 (0.13)	0.48 (0.09)
content of food purchased through the food stamp program, a government program to help low-income families buy food.	0.14	<0.001
Require that overweight	−0.42 (0.08)	0.29 (0.09)
people be subject to the same legal protections and benefits offered to people with other physical disabilities.	<0.001	0.002
Prohibit people from filing	0.32 (0.10)	−0.11 (0.09)
lawsuits against food or beverage companies based on claims that they gained weight from eating or drinking unhealthy products.	<0.001	0.25

^aPolicy support was measured on a 7-point Likert scale from 1 = “strongly oppose” to 7 = “strongly support.” Responsibility attribution was measured on a 7-point scale from 1 = “hardly any responsibility” to 7 = “a great deal of responsibility.” Ordered logit regression was used to estimate responsibility attributions with the 7 levels of policy support.

^bModels were adjusted for sex, parental status, education, age, race/ethnicity, responsibility attributed to children, political ideology, and partisanship.

^cExternal variable is the average of the responses for responsibility attribution to schools, food and beverage industry, and government.