Examining Elementary School-Aged Children's Self-Efficacy and Proxy Efficacy for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Autor/inn/en	Geller, Karly S.; Dzewaltowski, David A.
Titel	Examining Elementary School-Aged Children's Self-Efficacy and Proxy Efficacy for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 37 (2010) 4, S.465-478 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198109347067
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Self Efficacy; Factor Structure; After School Programs; Eating Habits; Nutrition; Elementary School Students; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Socioeconomic Influences; Food; Health Behavior; Child Behavior; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Faktorenstruktur; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Ernährung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Lebensmittel; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten
Abstract	Children's self-efficacy for fruit and vegetable consumption (FVC) and proxy efficacy to influence others to make fruit and vegetables (FV) available may influence their FVC. A previous investigation has demonstrated that self-efficacy for fruit consumption, self-efficacy for vegetable consumption, proxy efficacy to influence parents to make FV available, and proxy efficacy to influence after-school staff to make FV available can be measured with four independent but related scales. The purpose of the present investigation is to confirm this factor structure and determine if the scales were invariant across gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) subgroups of children attending after-school programs. Results provide further validity evidence for the four correlated scales. In addition, results confirm measurement invariance across gender, SES, and ethnicity, confirming the unbiased generalizability of the current measure to these demographic groups. Lastly, tests of population heterogeneity reveal no meaningful differences in self- and proxy efficacy among gender, SES, and ethnicity subgroups. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10