Table 2.

Exploratory factor analysis (rotated factor pattern, standardized regression coefficients) for the Caregiver’s Feeding Style Questionnaire (CFSQ)¹⁶ in the Niños Sanos study, North Carolina, 2011–2014^a

Item		Factor 1b	Factor 2	Factor 3
	Parent-Centeredc
1	Beg your child to eat dinnerd	0.681	0.092	0.048
2	Spoon-feed the child to get him or her to eat dinnerd	0.788	−0.073	−0.030
3	Physically struggle with the child to get him or her to eatd	0.535	0.014	−0.073
	Parent-Centered/Contingency Managementc
4	Warn the child that you will take away something other than food if he or she doesn’t eat	0.587	0.214	0.018
5	Promise the child something other than food if he or she eatsd	−0.018	0.722	0.129
6	Encourage the child to eat something by using food as a rewardd	0.057	0.783	−0.050
7	Warn the child that you will take a food away if the child doesn’t eat	0.375	0.139	0.071
	Child-Centeredc
8	Say something positive about the food the child is eating during dinnerd	0.067	0.064	0.505
9	Reason with the child to get him or her to eat	0.757	0.095	−0.033
10	Help the child to eat dinner	0.806	−0.133	0.031
11	Compliment the child for eating foodd	−0.015	0.062	0.608
12	Encourage the child to eat by arranging the food to make it more interesting	0.513	0.011	0.186
13	Ask the child questions about the food during dinnerd	−0.010	−0.055	0.855

^an=237

^bBolded values indicate the highest loading with factor analysis; threshold 0.5 used to determine the factor to which an item belongs

^cFactors identified in previous work¹⁶

^dItems selected for subsequent hidden Markov analysis