Cognitive and affective factors linking mothers' perceived weight history to child feeding.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

To explore whether mothers' lifetime experiences with their own weight status and related cognitive and affective factors influence child feeding behavior.

Subjects/methods

Overweight mothers (N = 221) of 4-5 year olds recalled their weight at four time points, and were grouped into weight history trajectories: recently overweight, always overweight, and steady-gain-obese. Objective food choice behavior was assessed in a virtual reality buffet and subjective food restriction for the index child was assessed using a psychometric measure.

Results

Mothers' observed food choice was not associated with weight trajectory, but mothers who spent more time being overweight and who weighed more at present were more restrictive of their child's eating. Moth

SUBMITTER: Bouhlal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018459 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature