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. 2015 Aug 25;2015:306306. doi: 10.1155/2015/306306

Table 2.

Means, standard deviations (SD), skewness, kurtosis, and Cronbach's alphas (α) for parental feeding strategies and child consumption of vegetables and SSB.

Variable/scale (number of items) Mean SD Skewness Kurtosis α
Parental feeding strategies
Encourage balance and variety (4) 4.47 0.51 −1.04 0.93 0.66
Home food environment (4) 3.92 0.68 −0.43 −0.28 0.57
Teaching about nutrition (3) 4.13 0.66 −0.67 −0.10 0.44
Monitoring (4) 4.05 0.56 −0.50 1.11 0.84
Restriction for health (4) 2.88 1.00 0.05 −0.78 0.73
Restriction for weight (8) 2.20 0.80 0.58 −0.08 0.83
Child consumption of vegetables (2) 5.48 2.22 −0.11 −0.80 0.52
Child consumption of SSB (1) 2.28 2.07 1.72 2.87