Table 2.

Exploratory Spearman correlations (rho) between the obese parent-child dyads presented overall and by age group, gender and ethnicity of the child

	Overall	Age group		Gender		Ethnicity
		7-8 y	9-10 y	Girls	Boys	Non-AA	AA
Weekdays
Cts/min	0.165†	0.135	0.179	0.148	0.197	0.252†	0.091
Sedentary (min)	0.163†	0.116	0.188	0.217†	0.083	0.271†	0.084
MVPA (min)	0.192†	0.197	0.184	0.164	0.255†	0.225	0.153
Weekend Days
Cts/min	0.352*	0.205	0.474*	0.340†	0.351†	0.302†	0.351†
Sedentary (min)	0.348*	0.195	0.463*	0.326†	0.284	0.418†	0.203
MVPA (min)	0.257†	0.269	0.243	0.157	0.344†	0.256	0.235

AA African American, y years of age

Cts/min accelerometry counts per minute, MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity

^†p < 0.05

^*p < 0.001