Table 2.

Factor loadings for all items of the CEBQ at 6 years and Cronbach’s alpha scores for each factor structure (n = 445).

Itemsa	Factors determined through factor analysisb							Original subscaleb	Cronbach’s alpha
	EF	FF	EOE	EUE	SE	DD	SR
Factor 1; 13.2% variance
My child loves food	0.739							EF	0.850
My child has a big appetite	0.718							SR
My child is interested in food	0.724							EF
My child is always asking for food	0.590							FR
Given the choice, my child would eat most of the time	0.465							FR
My child looks forward to mealtimes	0.657							EF
My child enjoys eating	0.770							EF
Even if my child is full up s/he finds room to eat his/her favorite food	0.411							FR
Factor 2; 10.2% variance
My child refuses new foods at first		0.811						FF	0.850
My child enjoys tasting new foods (R)		0.788						FF
My child enjoys a wide variety of foods (R)		0.689						FF
My child is difficult to please with meals		0.483						FF
My child is interested in tasting food s/he hasn’t tasted before (R)		0.784						FF
My child decides that s/he doesn’t like a food, even without tasting it		0.700						FF
Factor 3; 9.34% variance
My child eats more when worried			0.732					EOE	0.810
My child eats more when annoyed			0.785					EOE
If allowed to, my child would eat too much			0.550					FR
My child eats more when anxious			0.821					EOE
My child eats more s/he has nothing else to do			0.550					EOE
If given the chance, my child would always have food in his/her mouth			0.412					FR
Factor 4; 8.36% variance
9. My child eats less when angry				0.757				EUE	0.772
11. My child eats less when s/he is tired				0.779				EUE
23. My child eats more when she is happy				0.538				EUE
25. My child eats less when upset				0.791				EUE
Factor 5; 8.34% variance
My child finishes his/her meal quickly (R)					0.729			SE	0.813
My child eats slowly					0.790			SE
My child takes more than 30 min to finish a meal					0.761			SE
My child eats more and more slowly during the course of a meal					0.677			SE
Factor 6; 7.71 % variance
My child is always asking for a drink						0.761		DD	0.817
If given the chance, my child would drink continuously throughout the day						0.857		DD
If given the chance, my child would always be having a drink						0.874		DD
∗Factor 7; 5.66% variance
My child leaves food on his/her plate at the end of a meal							0.681	SR	0.701
My child gets full before his/her meal is finished							0.655	SR
My child gets full up easily							0.467	SR
My child cannot eat a meal if s/he has had a snack just before							0.501	SR

^aItems marked with (R) have been reversed scored. There are 35 items in the table as the item with a factor loading score of 0.35 or above. ^bAppetite scale the item was originally intended to measure: EF, enjoyment of food; FF, food fussiness; EOE, emotional over eating; DD, desire to drink; EUE, emotional under eating; SE, slowness in eating; and SR satiety responsiveness. ^∗The satiety responsiveness subscale is the seventh factor extracted and was not retained for further analysis.