Predictors of Paternal and Maternal Controlling Feeding Practices with 2- to 5-year-old Children

Haycraft, Emma; Blissett, Jacqueline

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2010.03.001

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“…15 Thus, although the use of less-controlling food-related parenting practices is increasingly supported as a method to promote a healthy weight for children, 16 evidence of the association between food-related parenting practices and child weight remains equivocal. [11][12][13][14][15]17,18 In addition, limitations in study population curb the scope of our understanding of this association. Most studies investigating this relationship have been conducted within ethnically or socioeconomically homogenous samples of young children and have limited the report of food-related parenting practices to mothers only.…”

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Food-Related Parenting Practices and Adolescent Weight Status: A Population-Based Study

Loth

MacLehose

Fulkerson³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

126

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Despite numerous studies, evidence of the association between food-related parenting practices and child weight remains equivocal. Examination of this association within a sample of diverse adolescents is needed to inform anticipatory guidance provided by physicians working with parents of adolescents. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:The current study explores associations between food-related parenting practices and weight status in a population-based sample of parent-adolescent pairs. This diverse sample allows for an in-depth examination of the role of gender, race/ ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and grade level in this association. abstract OBJECTIVE: To examine food-related parenting practices (pressure-toeat and food restriction) among mothers and fathers of adolescents and associations with adolescent weight status within a large populationbased sample of racially/ethnically and socioeconomically diverse parent-adolescent pairs. RESULTS:Findings suggest that the use of controlling food-related parenting practices, including pressure-to-eat and restriction, is common among parents of adolescents. Mean restriction levels were significantly higher among parents of overweight and obese adolescents compared with nonoverweight adolescents. However, levels of pressure-to-eat were significantly higher among nonoverweight adolescents. Results indicate that fathers are more likely than mothers to engage in pressure-to-eat behaviors and boys are more likely than girls to be on the receiving end of parental pressure-to-eat. Parental report of restriction did not differ significantly by parent or adolescent gender. No significant interactions by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status were seen in the relationship between restriction or pressureto-eat and adolescent weight status. CONCLUSIONS:Given that there is accumulating evidence for the detrimental effects of controlling feeding practices on children' s ability to selfregulate energy intake, these findings suggest that parents should be educated and empowered through anticipatory guidance to encourage moderation rather than overconsumption and emphasize healthful food choices rather than restrictive eating patterns. Pediatrics 2013;131: e1443-e1450

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Food-Related Parenting Practices and Adolescent Weight Status: A Population-Based Study

Loth

MacLehose

Fulkerson³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

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102

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“…Although demonstrating adequate reliability in this sample, the CFQ-A was adapted for this study and requires further validation and testing. Future research, building on this study, should consider adolescents' views of their mothers' and fathers' feeding interactions separately, in view of evidence demonstrating that mothers and fathers can exhibit different influences on their children's eating (29). Future research would also benefit from obtaining reports from adolescents and their parents, in order to identify correspondence between parent-child reports and to explore differences or similarities in the relationships seen depending on the respondent.…”

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“…Thus, in families of adolescents where health professionals identify a risk of parental use of controlling feeding (e.g., in obese parents or those with eating disorders), it may be beneficial to recommend the avoidance of controlling practices and to encourage parents take some degree of responsibility for their adolescent's meals / food provision. Furthermore, assessing parental eating psychopathology is also recommended for future studies in view of the intergenerational transmission of eating psychopathology (33) and the established links between parental eating disorder symptoms and the use of controlling feeding practices (29,32,34). …”

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Adolescents' Level of Eating Psychopathology Is Related to Perceptions of Their Parents' Current Feeding Practices

Haycraft

Goodwin

Meyer

2014

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…In this study, father-infant interactions were characterized by child's food refusal. Considering the studies of Haycraft and Blissett (2012), the authors suggest that fathers tend to control child's feeding more than mothers, imposing more pressure to the child in an effort to make him/her eat; in doing so, they could cause food-refusal behaviors in their children.…”

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Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

Ballarotto

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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Early maternal relational traumas can have an impact on mothers' psychopathological risk and mother-infant interactions. Research has suggested the importance of fathers' role as protection or risk factors for child's development. Few studies had considered fathers in the assessment of the quality of parent-infants interactions during daily routines (e.g. feeding) and there is a lack of research on non-referred samples. This paper aims to assess the quality of parent-infant interactions during feeding in families with mothers who have experienced early relational traumas, such as emotional abuse and neglect or sexual/physical abuse, considering parental psychopathological risks. N= 98 families were recruited and divided into three groups: families with mothers who lived through early sexual/physical abuse (Group A); families with mothers who lived through early emotional abuse or neglect (Group B); healthy controls (Group C). Families were assessed at 6 months of the children with a protocol that included an observation of parent-infant interactions during feeding and a self-report assessing psychopathological risk. Group B showed more maladaptive mother-infants and father-infant interactions with their children. Results show that the interaction of maternal depression and early traumatic experiences of neglect and emotional abuse predicted more maladaptive scores on the affective state of the dyad subscale. Furthermore, paternal anxiety predicted higher scores of child's food refusal subscales. These results are very important for the planning of prevention and / or treatment , which take into account of the whole family.

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Predictors of Paternal and Maternal Controlling Feeding Practices with 2- to 5-year-old Children

Cited by 115 publications

References 31 publications

Food-Related Parenting Practices and Adolescent Weight Status: A Population-Based Study

Food-Related Parenting Practices and Adolescent Weight Status: A Population-Based Study

Adolescents' Level of Eating Psychopathology Is Related to Perceptions of Their Parents' Current Feeding Practices

Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Mothers who had Experienced Early Relational Traumas

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