Context matters! The relationship between mother-reported family nutrition climate, general parenting, food parenting practices and children’s BMI

Table 6 Pearson correlation coefficients between FPPs and children’s BMI z-score for different groups of parents, based on FNC (low and high) and GP (low and high)

	N	Healthy FPPs	Covert FPPs	Overt FPPs	Non-nutritive FPPs
Whole sample	261	−.095	−.095	−.079	.096
Group 1	132	−.042	−.088	−.090	.090
Low FNC	132	−.042	−.088	−.090	.090
Group 2	129	−.075	.017	−.031	.077
High FNC	129	−.075	.017	−.031	.077
Group 3	132	−.079	−.029	−.012	.064
Low GP	132	−.079	−.029	−.012	.064
Group 4	129	−.124	−.087	−.171	.134
High GP	129	−.124	−.087	−.171	.134
Group a	51	−.039	−.189	−.222	.171
Low FNC, High GP	51	−.039	−.189	−.222	.171
Group b	81	−.035	−.030	−.015	.032
Low FNC, Low GP	81	−.035	−.030	−.015	.032
Group c	78	−.229	−.034	−.144	.111
High FNC, High GP	78	−.229	−.034	−.144	.111
Group d	51	.057	.074	.069	.073
High FNC, Low GP	51	.057	.074	.069	.073

FPPs food parenting practices, FNC family nutrition climate, GP general parenting; bold numbers are statistically significant (P < .05)

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