USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates St., Houston, TX 77030, United States; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, United States.
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates St., Houston, TX 77030, United States.
Appetite. 2014 May;76:166-74. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.01.077. Epub 2014 Feb 14.
Parent feeding styles have been associated with children's eating behaviors and weight status across multiple studies. However, little is known about the mechanism through which parent feeding styles influence child weight status. Children's ability to self-regulate their eating may be the mechanism that links these two constructs. This study examined the relationship between parent feeding styles, child self-regulatory ability, and weight status to determine whether self-regulatory ability mediated the relationship between parent feeding styles and child weight status in a group of 296 parents and their preschool aged children. Indulgent feeding style was related to children having lessened satiety responsiveness and higher enjoyment of food (two components of self-regulation around eating) compared to other parent feeding styles. Children of parents with an indulgent feeding style were also higher in weight status compared to other feeding styles. Mediation analyses revealed that satiety responsiveness and enjoyment of food mediated the relationship between parent feeding style and child BMI z-score such that children of parents with indulgent feeding styles had lessened ability to self-regulate around eating and higher BMI z-scores. Findings from this study suggest that children's ability to self-regulate eating might be an important mechanism by which parent feeding style and child weight are related to each other.
父母的喂养方式与多项研究中儿童的饮食行为和体重状况有关。然而，关于父母喂养方式影响儿童体重状况的机制知之甚少。儿童自我调节饮食的能力可能是将这两个结构联系起来的机制。本研究调查了父母喂养方式、儿童自我调节能力和体重状况之间的关系，以确定自我调节能力是否在一组 296 名父母及其学龄前儿童中调节了父母喂养方式和儿童体重状况之间的关系。放纵型喂养方式与儿童的饱腹感反应降低和对食物的享受增加（饮食自我调节的两个组成部分）有关，与其他父母喂养方式相比。与其他喂养方式相比，放纵型喂养方式的父母的孩子体重状况也更高。中介分析表明，饱腹感反应和对食物的享受调节了父母喂养方式和儿童 BMI 得分之间的关系，即放纵型喂养方式的父母的孩子在饮食自我调节方面的能力降低，BMI 得分更高。这项研究的结果表明，儿童自我调节饮食的能力可能是父母喂养方式和儿童体重相互关联的一个重要机制。
