ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2020
Association of parental guilt with harmful versus healthful eating and feeding from a virtual reality buffet.
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- The wide variety of reasons for feeling guilty in adults: findings from a large cross-sectional web-based survey.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Investigating the Efficacy of Genetic, Environmental, and Multifactorial Risk Information When Communicating Obesity Risk to Parents of Young Children.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Virtual Reality Expands the Toolkit for Conducting Health Psychology Research.Social and personality psychology compass · 2021Article
- Parents' genetic attributions for children's eating behaviors: Relationships with beliefs, emotions, and food choice behavior.Appetite · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveParents often report guilt about what they feed their child, but no studies have examined how this guilt might affect their child-feeding or own eating behavior. Some studies suggest that guilt motivates healthy behaviors, yet others show that guilt impairs the self-control needed to abstain from unhealthy behaviors.
methodOne hundred ninety parents reported how guilty they felt about their current child-feeding habits. Parents then chose food for their child in a virtual reality buffet and reported their intentions to improve child-feeding and own eating behavior in the future. Finally, parents were offered candy while they completed an unrelated survey.
resultsParents with greater guilt reported stronger intentions to improve both feeding (
conclusionsFindings echo the mixed conceptualization of guilt shown in previous literature on health behavior. More research is necessary to understand the long-term influence of guilt on eating and feeding behavior and the circumstances under which guilt is associated with detrimental versus healthy behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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