Table 3.

Two‐tailed partial correlations examining the associations between emotional responses to mealtimes and child feeding practices when controlling for both anxiety and depression among mothers of young children (N = 186)

	MEM‐P Efficacy	MEM‐P Anxiety	MEM‐P Stress and Anger
Structure
CFPQ Child control	−0.06	0.15*	0.01
CFPQ Environment	0.20**	0.03	−0.09
CFPQ Modelling	0.26***	0.10	0.01
CFPQ Monitoring	0.10	0.04	−0.01
Coercive control
CFPQ Emotion regulation	−0.16*	0.08	0.16*
CFPQ Food as reward	−0.11	0.04	0.08
CFPQ Pressure	−0.00	−0.06	0.09
CFPQ Restriction for health	−0.13	−0.05	−0.01
CFPQ Restriction for weight control	−0.04	−0.02	−0.04
Autonomy promotion
CFPQ Encourage balance and variety	0.16*	−0.12	−0.19**
CFPQ Involvement	0.19**	−0.15*	−0.07
CFPQ Teaching about nutrition	0.18*	−0.02	−0.10

Abbreviations: CFPQ, Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire; MEM‐P, Mealtime Emotions Measure for Parents.

^* p ≤ 0.05

^** p ≤ 0.01

^*** p ≤ 0.001.