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. 2022 Nov 22;10:275. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-00981-8

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of factors from the Children Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) and the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ)

Factors N M (SD) Omega coefficient
Parenting styles
Positive parenting
 Parental involvement, 4 items 511 4.2 (0.53) .49
 Positive parenting, 6 items 510 4.5 (0.38) .76
 Responsible parenting, 6 items 511 3.8 (0.53) .68
Negative parenting
 Powerful implementation, 5 items 508 3.5 (0.61) .72
 Inconsistent parenting, 5 items 511 2.5 (0.54) .69
 Corporal punishment, 4 items 509 1.6 (0.55) .59
 Low monitoring, 5 items 510 1.3 (0.38) .61
Eating behaviors
 Food responsiveness, 4 items 509 2.0 (0.75) .83
 Emotional overeating, 4 items 504 1.5 (0.55) .77
 Enjoyment of food, 5 items 509 3.5 (0.47) .86
 Satiety responsiveness, 4 items 511 2.9 (0.65) .66
 Slowness in eating, 4 items 509 2.9 (0.74) .76
 Emotional undereating, 3 items 507 3.0 (0.87) .78
 Food fussiness, 6 items 509 2.9 (0.79) .90

Behaviors are rated on a five -point Likert scale. These are the factors retained for our 7-factors structure model of CEBQ and the 5 retained factors for APQ