The home food environment and associations with dietary intake among adolescents presenting for a lifestyle modification intervention

Table 2 Measurement model of parenting constructs using confirmatory factor analysis

	Standardized Factor Loading^a	Standard Error	Cronbach’s alpha
Authoritative Parenting			0.81
Listens to child’s problems	0.45	0.07
Aware of where child is going	0.56	0.06
Tells child when doing a good job	0.65	0.06
Checks child’s homework	0.63	0.06
Knows what child does with friends	0.72	0.05
Likes child the way they are	0.60	0.06
Tells child when to come home	0.75	0.05
Parent Modeling			0.76
Parents eat fruits around child	0.50	0.07
Parents eat salad at restaurants around child	0.60	0.06
Parents eat low fat snacks around child	0.75	0.05
Parents eat low fat dressings around child	0.82	0.05
Family Meal Practices			0.60
Family eats fast food	0.71	0.09
Family eats while watching television	0.42	0.09
Family uses pre-packaged meals	0.66	0.09
Family eats dessert after dinner	0.41	0.09

Initial model fit: χ²(df = 249) = 494, p < .001; RMSEA = .08 [.07–.09], p < .001; CFI = .78; and SRMR = .09
Final model fit: χ²(df = 87) = 123, p < .01; RMSEA = .05 [.03–.07], p = .50; CFI = .94; and SRMR = .06
^aStandardized factor loadings of final model, all significant at p < .001
Correlations between factors were as follows: 0.15 between authoritative parenting and parent modeling; 0.16 between authoritative parenting and family meal practices; and 0.25 between parent modeling and family meal practices

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