The degree of consistency of applying parental dietary and sedentary behavior rules as indicators for overweight in children: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Associations between typologies based on applying parental EBRB rules and socio-demographic covariates

			Parents with a child 4- 7 years of age		Parents with a child 8- 12 years of age
Covariate	Reference		β	SE	β	SE
Age of child	Class 1	Class 2	-0.12	0.07	-0.11	0.07
		Class 3	-0.02	0.07	0.01	0.07
		Class 4	0.00	0.07	-0.15*	0.06
	Class 2	Class 3	0.10	0.07	0.12	0.06
		Class 4	0.13*	0.06	-0.03	0.05
	Class 3	Class 4	0.03	0.07	-0.15**	0.06
Gender of child	Class 1	Class 2	0.25	0.16	0.30	0.15
		Class 3	0.12	0.17	-0.14	0.15
		Class 4	-0.07	0.15	-0.01	0.14
	Class 2	Class 3	-0.13	0.15	-0.43**	0.13
		Class 4	-0.32*	0.13	-0.29*	0.12
	Class 3	Class 4	0.20	0.15	0.15	0.12
Ethnicity of child	Class 1	Class 2	-0.62**	0.24	-0.93***	0.23
		Class 3	-0.19	0.23	0.18	0.20
		Class 4	-0.12	0.20	-0.28	0.18
	Class 2	Class 3	0.43‡	0.22	0.75**	0.22
		Class 4	0.50*	0.20	0.65**	0.20
	Class 3	Class 4	0.08	0.22	-0.11	0.19
Education parents	Class 1	Class 2	-0.27**	0.08	-0.12‡	0.08
		Class 3	0.16‡	0.09	0.01	0.08
		Class 4	0.71*	0.11	0.17*	0.08
	Class 2	Class 3	0.11	0.08	0.12	0.07
		Class 4	0.27***	0.07	0.29**	0.06
	Class 3	Class 4	0.17*	0.12	0.16*	0.07

Class 1 = “no rules diet, indulgent sedentary”; Class 2 = “indulgent diet, no rules sedentary”; Class 3 = “overall indulgent”; Class 4 = “overall strict”; β beta coefficient, SE standard error
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, and ‡p < 0.10. Boldface value indicate significance for both groups (4–7 years and 8–12 years), whereas values in italics indicate significance for only one group

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