ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2018
Infant temperament and parent use of food to soothe predict change in weight-for-length across infancy: early risk factors for childhood obesity.
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- Sleep SAAF responsive parenting intervention improves mothers' feeding practices: a randomized controlled trial among African American mother-infant dyads.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Effect of a responsive parenting intervention on child emotional overeating is mediated by reduced maternal use of food to soothe: The INSIGHT RCT.Pediatric obesity · 2020Trial
- Home-based intervention for non-Hispanic black families finds no significant difference in infant size or growth: results from the Mothers & Others randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2020Trial
- The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) responsive parenting intervention for firstborns impacts feeding of secondborns.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Trial
- Ecological momentary assessment of using food to soothe during infancy in the INSIGHT trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Trial
- INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention and infant feeding practices: randomized clinical trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
- Child temperament predicts the adiposity rebound. A 9-year prospective sibling control study.PloS one · 2018Trial
- The Maternal Support Framework Studying Mothers' Perceived Understanding and Support During Excessive Infant Crying: Exploratory Qualitative Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Executive functioning is linked to feeding practices and food insecurity in Head Start mothers.Appetite · 2025Article
- Household chaos, child temperament, and structure-related feeding practices in toddlerhood: A moderation analysis.Eating behaviors · 2024Article
- Temperament and emotional overeating: the mediating role of caregiver response to children's negative emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Maternal Feeding Beliefs and Behaviors Relate to Infant Diet and Appetite.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Relationships between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits: The moderating role of infant temperament.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Sequential mediation of early temperament and eating behaviors in the pathways from feeding practices to childhood overweight and obesity.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Infant Feeding Varies Across Eating Behavior and Feeding Modalities in Mothers With Low Income.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2022Article
- Maternal sleep problems, depression, and infant negative emotionality are associated with maternal feeding to soothe in early infancy.Appetite · 2022Article
- Differences in sibling temperament are associated with differences in maternal use of food to soothe during infancy: A sibling analysis.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Predicting preschool children's emotional eating: The role of parents' emotional eating, feeding practices and child temperament.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesGreater weight gain in infancy is a risk factor for childhood obesity. The present study examined the interaction between infant temperament and parent use of food to soothe infant distress (FTS) as predictors of weight gain across the first 2 years of life. SUBJECTS/
methodsA total of 160 mother-infant dyads were recruited into a longitudinal study. Infant temperament was assessed by parents through a questionnaire (surgency, negativity) and by observer ratings (surgency, irritability) during a laboratory visit when infants were 6 months old. Parents also completed a 3-day infant cry diary when their children were 6 months of age to assess when they used food in response to infant cry/fuss bouts. Infant weight/length was measured in the lab at 6 and 18 months. Multiple regressions were run to test the moderating effect of FTS on weight gain.
resultsSignificant interactions were revealed for both measures of surgency and parent FTS in predicting weight gain. Surgent infants whose parents had a greater tendency to use FTS had greater weight-for-length gain in 1 year than if their parents tended to use less FTS. The interaction between observer ratings of irritability and parent FTS was also significant but in an unexpected direction.
conclusionsThe findings point to the role of temperament, specifically surgency, in weight gain during infancy, but only if their parents used FTS. Surgency may have evoked this feeding practice that increased their health risk.
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