Promotion and Prevention Focused Feeding Strategies: Exploring the Effects on Healthy and Unhealthy Child Eating

Table 2

Means, standard deviations (SD), skewness, kurtosis, and Cronbach’s alphas (α) for parental feeding strategies and child consumption of vegetables and SSB.

Variable/scale (number of items)	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	α
Parental feeding strategies
Encourage balance and variety (4)	4.47	0.51	−1.04	0.93	0.66
Home food environment (4)	3.92	0.68	−0.43	−0.28	0.57
Teaching about nutrition (3)	4.13	0.66	−0.67	−0.10	0.44
Monitoring (4)	4.05	0.56	−0.50	1.11	0.84
Restriction for health (4)	2.88	1.00	0.05	−0.78	0.73
Restriction for weight (8)	2.20	0.80	0.58	−0.08	0.83
Child consumption of vegetables (2)	5.48	2.22	−0.11	−0.80	0.52
Child consumption of SSB (1)	2.28	2.07	1.72	2.87	—