Department of Human Development, Washington State University, PO Box 644852, Pullman, WA 99164-4852, USA.
Appetite. 2013 Apr;63:77-83. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.12.017. Epub 2013 Jan 2.
Recent research has demonstrated the importance of maternal feeding practices and children's eating behavior in the development of childhood obesity. The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between maternal and child eating patterns, and to examine the degree to which these relationships were mediated through maternal feeding practices. Two hundred and twenty-two low-income mothers and their preschool children participated. About half of the families were African American and half were Latino. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing maternal eating patterns, maternal feeding practices, and children's eating patterns. Maternal external eating (eating in response to outside stimuli, not internal hunger/thirst cues) was positively correlated with two child eating scores: picky eating and desire to eat. Mediational analyses showed that external eating in mothers was related to picky eating in children through high maternal control in feeding; the relationship between mothers' external eating and desire to eat in children was not mediated through maternal control. Picky eating and desire to eat in children were related to emotional eating in mothers as well. The implications of these results for understanding the development of childhood obesity are considered.
最近的研究表明，母亲的喂养方式和孩子的饮食习惯在儿童肥胖的发展中起着重要作用。本研究旨在探讨母子饮食模式之间的关系，并研究这些关系在多大程度上通过母亲的喂养方式来调节。共有 222 名低收入母亲及其学龄前儿童参与了研究。大约一半的家庭是非洲裔美国人，另一半是拉丁裔。母亲们完成了评估母亲饮食模式、母亲喂养方式和孩子饮食模式的问卷。母亲的外部进食（对外界刺激的反应，而不是内部饥饿/口渴提示）与两个儿童饮食评分呈正相关：挑食和想吃。中介分析表明，母亲的外部进食与孩子的挑食通过喂养中的高母亲控制有关；母亲外部进食与孩子想吃之间的关系不受母亲控制的调节。儿童的挑食和想吃与母亲的情绪性进食也有关。考虑到这些结果对理解儿童肥胖症的发展的意义。
