Emma Haycraft1, Jackie Blissett. 1. Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. E.Haycraft@lboro.ac.uk
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify predictors of controlling feeding practices in both mothers and fathers of young children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, questionnaire design. SETTING: Nursery schools within the United Kingdom recruited participants. PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-six mothers and fathers comprising 48 mother-father pairs of male and female children aged 2 to 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Parents' child feeding practices, eating psychopathology, general mental health symptomology, and their children's eating behaviors and temperament. ANALYSIS: Preliminary correlations; stepwise regressions. RESULTS: Maternal controlling feeding was predicted by children's eating behaviors (emotional over- and undereating), child temperament (sociability), and maternal general mental health symptoms. Paternal reports of children's eating behaviors (slow eating and emotional undereating) were the only significant predictors of fathers' controlling feeding practices. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Mothers' and fathers' feeding practices seem to be better linked to child characteristics than to the presence of eating psychopathology symptoms. Children's emotional eating predicted all 3 controlling feeding practices in mothers and warrants further study to elucidate the causal nature of this relationship.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify predictors of controlling feeding practices in both mothers and fathers of young children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, questionnaire design. SETTING: Nursery schools within the United Kingdom recruited participants. PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-six mothers and fathers comprising 48 mother-father pairs of male and female children aged 2 to 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Parents' child feeding practices, eating psychopathology, general mental health symptomology, and their children's eating behaviors and temperament. ANALYSIS: Preliminary correlations; stepwise regressions. RESULTS: Maternal controlling feeding was predicted by children's eating behaviors (emotional over- and undereating), child temperament (sociability), and maternal general mental health symptoms. Paternal reports of children's eating behaviors (slow eating and emotional undereating) were the only significant predictors of fathers' controlling feeding practices. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Mothers' and fathers' feeding practices seem to be better linked to child characteristics than to the presence of eating psychopathology symptoms. Children's emotional eating predicted all 3 controlling feeding practices in mothers and warrants further study to elucidate the causal nature of this relationship.
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