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Table 4 Differences in parental feeding practices between fathers and mothers

From: Associations of parental feeding practices with children’s eating behaviors and food preferences: a Chinese cross-sectional study

 

Fathers

Mothers

P value

Instrumental feeding

2.16 ± 0.77

2.38 ± 0.71

0.207

Encouragement

3.20 ± 0.50

3.31 ± 0.62

0.561

Emotional feeding

2.18 ± 0.75

2.53 ± 0.69

0.048

Control over eating

0.55 ± 0.49

0.70 ± 0.51

0.114

  1. Mann–Whitney U tests were used to assess differences between mothers and fathers. P-value < 0.05 are in bold type