Vegetable-Related Parenting Practices, Parenting Style and Preschoolers' Vegetable Consumption: Cross-Sectional Associations and the Moderating Role of Parenting Style.

ABSTRACT: The specific food parenting practices used by parents, along with the broader parenting style that reflects the general characteristics of their approach to parenting, may influence children's vegetable consumption. We examined cross-sectional associations of parenting style constructs (nurturance, structure, behavioural control, inappropriate control, and overprotection) and vegetable-related parenting practices (VPP) ('encouragement and modelling', 'child involvement', 'enhanced availability and autonomy support') with 3-6-year-old children's vegetable consumption. Additionally, we explored if parenting style moderated the associations between the VPPs and children's vegetable consumption. The sample included 767 Finnish children and their parents. Parents reported parenting style using

SUBMITTER: Rahkola J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12454183 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature