Predicting preschool children's emotional eating: The role of parents' emotional eating, feeding practices and child temperament.

ABSTRACT: Emotional eating (EE; defined as overeating irrespective of satiety and in response to emotional states) develops within childhood, persists into adulthood, and is linked with obesity. The origins of EE remain unclear, but parental behaviours (e.g., controlling feeding practices and modelling) and child characteristics (e.g., temperament) are often implicated. To date, the interaction between these influences has not been well investigated. This study explores whether the relationship between parent and child EE is shaped by parental feeding practices, and if the magnitude of this relationship varies as a function of child temperament. Mothers (N = 244) of 3-5-year-olds completed questionnaires about their EE, feeding practices, their children's EE and temperament. Results showed that pare

SUBMITTER: Stone RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218318 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature