Table 3.

Spearman's correlations between eating behaviour scores in parents and in late adolescents. These correlations were adjusted for parent's age and body mass index, and adolescent's age and body mass index

	Sons			Daughters
	CR	UE	EE	CR	UE	EE
Fathers	(n = 115)			(n = 104)
CR	0.16	0.36*	0.26*	−0.02	−0.01	−0.12
UE	0.01	0.07	0.18	0.00	0.07	−0.03
EE	0.06	0.16	0.20*	0.03	−0.06	−0.01
Mothers	(n = 132)			(n = 124)
CR	0.04	0.17	0.17	0.13	−0.01	0.10
UE	0.12	0.15	0.18*	0.26*	0.22*	0.20*
EE	0.07	0.15	0.25*	0.20*	0.12	0.24*

CR, cognitive restraint; UE, uncontrolled eating; EE, emotional eating; *significant Spearman's correlations (P < 0.05).