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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2016 Mar;20(3):720–729. doi: 10.1007/s10995-015-1873-0

Table 3.

Consistencya Between Child-Reported and Mother-Reported Parental Support Within Mother-Child Dyads for Total Sample and by Child’s Gender

Total Sample (N=693) Males (N=311) Females (N=432)
Perceived Parental Support Child Mother Consistencya Child Mother Consistency Child Mother Consistencya
Encourage PA 62.5% 47.5% 65.4% 64.0% 51.5% 65.6% 61.3% 44.2% 65.2%
Play outside/do PA 30.0% 17.2% 66.4% 29.6% 19.0% 63.3% 30.4% 15.7% 68.9%
Provide Transportation 48.2% 17.8% 56.7% 50.8% 20.3% 55.3% 46.1% 15.7% 57.9%
Watch child be physically active 48.8% 25.0% 62.2% 55.0% 29.3% 57.2% 43.7%* 21.5%* 66.2%
*

There were significant differences (p < .05) between proportions for males and females.

a

Responses were considered to be consistent if they differed by no more than one increment on our 5-point response scales.