ArticleAppetite2018
Predicting preschool children's eating in the absence of hunger from maternal pressure to eat: A longitudinal study of low-income, Latina mothers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Factors Associated with Eating in the Absence of Hunger among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Parent-Child influences on child eating self-regulation and weight in early childhood: A systematic review.Appetite · 2022Pooled it
- Bidirectional associations between mothers' feeding practices and child eating behaviours.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
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- Eating in the Absence of Hunger Is a Stable Predictor of Adiposity Gains in Middle Childhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Observational
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- PACE: a Novel Eating Behavior Phenotype to Assess Risk for Obesity in Middle Childhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- How Parental Feeding Practices Relate to Young People's Intuitive Eating: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations by Gender and Weight Concern.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Parental Feeding Practices and Children's Eating Behaviours: An Overview of Their Complex Relationship.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bidirectional associations between parental feeding practices, infant appetitive traits and infant BMIz: a longitudinal cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- Content and Validity of Claims Made about Food Parenting Practices in United Kingdom Online News Articles.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Maternal Feeding Styles and Child Appetitive Traits: Direction of Effects in Hispanic Families With Low Incomes.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Parental feeding practices across child's weight status: Evidence of the Italian validation of the Child Feeding Questionnaire.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Conceptualizing and Measuring Appetite Self-Regulation Phenotypes and Trajectories in Childhood: A Review of Person-Centered Strategies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
- Associations between the Home Environment, Feeding Practices and Children's Intakes of Fruit, Vegetables and Confectionary/Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Validation of the Child Feeding Questionnaire among Saudi pre-schoolers in Jeddah city.Public health nutrition · 2020Article
- Promoting Cardiovascular Health in Early Childhood and Transitions in Childhood through Adolescence: A Workshop Report.The Journal of pediatrics · 2019Article
- A Structural Equation Modelling Approach to Understanding Influences of Maternal and Family Characteristics on Feeding Practices in Young Children.Current developments in nutrition · 2018Article
- Identifying behavioral phenotypes for childhood obesity.Appetite · 2018Review
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Abstract
Early work by Klesges et al. (1983, 1986) suggested that mothers who frequently prompt their children to eat have children at greater risk for obesity. This is consistent with the hypothesis that controlling feeding practices override children's responsiveness to their internal fullness cues, increasing the risk of overeating and obesity (e.g., Johnson & Birch, 1994). Subsequent cross-sectional research on pressure to eat, however, has been inconsistent. Most studies have shown that maternal self-reports of pressure to eat are negatively associated with childhood obesity, and observational studies showed inconsistent relationships with child weight status. In the present study we examined the association between low-income, Latina mothers' pressure to eat and their preschool children's eating in the absence of hunger using both self-report and observational measures of feeding practices. A longitudinal design examined eating in the absence of hunger over 18 months; children's BMI at the initial timepoint was statistically controlled to address the tendency of mothers of underweight children to pressure their children to eat. At each timepoint, mothers completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire (Birch et al., 2001) and were observed feeding their child a meal in a laboratory setting. Eating in the absence of hunger (Fisher & Birch, 1999) was assessed at both timepoints as well. A cross-lagged panel model showed that observed maternal prompts to eat a different food at time one predicted kcal consumed in the absence of hunger at time two (controlling for kcal consumed in the absence of hunger at first timepoint: beta = 0.20, p < 0.05). Results suggest that pressure to eat alone may not be what contributes to eating in the absence of hunger, but that the nature of that pressure may be more important.
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