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ArticleNutrients2022

Development and Psychometric Characteristics of an Instrument to Assess Parental Feeding Practices to Promote Young Children's Eating Self-Regulation: Results with a Portuguese Sample.

Ana Isabel Gomes, Magda Sofia Roberto, Ana Isabel Pereira, Cátia Alves, Patrícia João, Ana Rita Dias, João Veríssimo, Luísa Barros

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Ana Isabel GomesResearch Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
Magda Sofia RobertoResearch Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4127-561X
Ana Isabel PereiraResearch Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
Cátia AlvesFaculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
Patrícia JoãoFaculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
Ana Rita DiasFaculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
João VeríssimoFaculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.
Luísa BarrosResearch Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5075-0104
University of Lisbon · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia PTDC/PSI-GER/30432/2017Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDB/04527/2020Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDP/04527/2020
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Abstract

A parental child-centered feeding approach is likely to keep children’s biological mechanisms activated while eating, protecting them in an obesogenic context. However, few feeding practice measures assess parents’ behaviors to guide and prompt children to identify and respond appropriately to their signs of hunger and satiety. We aimed to develop and study the reliability, validity, and measurement invariance of a new scale to assess parental feeding practices to promote children’s self-regulation of food intake. To pursue this aim, we conducted two descriptive, cross-sectional, online studies in Portugal in an online format; a total of 536 parents of 2- to 6-year-old children completed the evaluation protocol. Factorial analysis findings support the theoretical organization proposed for the scale. The confirmatory factorial analysis supported a first-order factor structure with two subscales, Prompting for eating self-regulation and Teaching about eating consequences, with eight items in total. Both scales presented good internal consistency and adequate temporal stability, with a significant, positive, and moderate relationship. The results showed metric invariance for the child’s sex. Both types of practices were positively correlated with the child’s enjoyment of food. Prompting for eating self-regulation showed negative associations with parents’ emotional lack of control, children’s satiety responsiveness, slowness in eating, and fussiness. Preliminary studies confirmed both the validity and reliability of the instrument and the adequacy of adopting a self-regulatory approach when assessing child-centered feeding practices. Combining this instrument with others that assess coercive practices can be beneficial to capture ineffective parents’ behaviors on children’s eating self-regulation.

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Child BehaviorSelf-ControlChildChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesEatingFeeding BehaviorHumansParentingParentsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and Questionnaireseating self-regulationfeeding practicesparentspreschool childrenpsychometric studyscale development

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