Table 4.

Associations between Perceived Social Support for Unhealthy Eating Questionnaire Items and HEI Overall Scores (n=278)^a

Dependent Variable	HEI Overall Score
Questionnaire Item 1: How often do your:	β	Std. Err.	P-value
Parents: Offer you high-fat foods/sweets	−1.65	0.52	0.002
Friends: Offer you high-fat foods/sweets	0.10	0.43	0.82
Questionnaire Item 2: How often do your:	β	Std. Err.	P-value
Parents: Encourage you to eat high-fat foods/sweets	−0.78	0.57	0.18
Friends: Encourage you to eat high-fat foods/sweets	0.61	0.45	0.18
Questionnaire Item 3: How often do your:	β	Std. Err.	P-value
Parents: Say nice things about high-fat foods/sweets you are eating	−0.80	0.49	0.10
Friends: Say nice things about high-fat foods/sweets you are eating	0.77	0.43	0.08

^aHigher HEI scores imply better diet quality. All models were controlled for age, gender, race, and household income. Age was entered as a continuous variable (range 9.45-15.28). Race was entered as 1= African American, 0= not African American. Household income was entered as a dummy variable where 0=0-10,000; 1=10,001-20,000; 2=20,001-30,000; 3=30,001+; 4=participant declined to respond. HEI Index overall scores were entered as continuous variables (range 0-100). Social support scores were entered as continuous variables (range 0-4), analysis checks were conducted to assure scale mimicked continuous distribution. Interaction terms (friend support for each question*parent support for each question; friend support for each question*gender; parent support for each question*gender) were tested, but removed from the models due to lack of significance