ArticlePublic health nutrition2019
An examination of food parenting practices: structure, control and autonomy promotion.
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- Is the Prospective Link between Parental Stress and Adolescent Snack Intake or Weight Outcome Mediated by Food Parenting Practices?Nutrients · 2021Article
- "More Than Buying Extra Fruits and Veggies, Please Hide the Fats and Sugars": Children's Diet Latent Profiles and Family-Related Factors.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Exploring Feeding Practices and Food Literacy in Parents with Young Children from Disadvantaged Areas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Development of a Family-Based Nutrition Program Rooted in Food Parenting Literature.Family and consumer sciences research journal · 2020Article
- Parental feeding practices data in healthy children and children with gastrointestinal diseases.Data in brief · 2020Article
- A Comprehensive Assessment of Food Parenting Practices: Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the HomeSTEAD Family Food Practices Survey and Associations with Children's Weight and Food Intake.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveIn recent years, researchers have been working towards creating a standard conceptual framework of food parenting. To understand how parents' reports correspond with the proposed model, the current study examined parents' reports of their feeding behaviours in the context of a newly established framework of food parenting.
designCross-sectional, with a two-week follow-up for a subset of the sample. Participants completed a quantitative and qualitative survey to assess food parenting. The survey included items from common food parenting instruments to measure the constructs posited in the framework. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted to ascertain which items related most closely to one another and factors were mapped on to existing constructs.
settingOnline.
participantsParents of children aged 2·5-7 years (n 496). Of these, 122 completed a two-week follow-up.
resultsAnalyses revealed eleven aspects of Structure (monitoring; distraction; family presence; meal/snack schedule; unstructured practices; healthy/unhealthy food availability; food preparation; healthy/unhealthy modelling; rules), ten aspects of Coercive Control (pressure to eat; using food to control emotions; food incentives to eat; food incentives to behave; non-food incentives to eat; restriction for health/weight; covert restriction; clean plate; harsh coercion) and seven aspects of Autonomy Promotion (praise; encouragement; nutrition education; child involvement; negotiation; responsive feeding; repeated offering). Content validity, assessed via parents' open-ended explanations of their responses, was high, and test-retest reliability was moderate to high. Structure and Autonomy Promoting food parenting were highly positively correlated.
conclusionsIn general, parents' responses provided support for the model, but suggested some amendments and refinements.
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