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Table 3.

Factor analysis for assessing behavioral clusters of DMFT (dentally healthy vs. diseased) and BMI (obese vs. non-obese) among Turkish pre-adolescents and their Finnish counterparts by Varimax rotated solution (all behavioral variables, i.e. dietary habits and television viewing, classified as favorable (1) and unfavorable (0) along with health measures (dentally healthy = 1, non-obese = 1)). The clusters in 3 study groups, in total, accounted for 58.8, 62.6, and 38.9% of the total variance.

	Turkish public school pre-adolescents (n = 285)				Turkish private school pre-adolescents (n = 163)
	health	leisure time activity	diet-related behavior	health	leisure time activity	diet-related behavior	health	diet-related behavior
DMFT	0.814	0.356	_^*	0.566	0.396	_^*	0.598	_^*
BMI	– 0.605	^*	_^*	0.560	_^*	_^*	0.369	_^*
TV viewing on a school day	^*	0.550	_^*	_^*	0.730	_^*	0.355	0.554
Dinner with family members	^*	0.282	_^*	0.681	_^*	0.313	0.499	0.294
Fizzy drinks per week	^*	^*	0.972	_^*	_^*	0.978	_^*	0.758
Fast foods per week	_^*	^*	0.970	_^*	_^*	0.977	_^*	0.640
Daily snacking on fruits	_^*	0.759	_^*	_^*	0.704	_^*	0.608	_^*
between meals

Factor loadings below 0.25 extracted for ease of communication.