Florida State University College of Medicine, United States.
Florida State University College of Medicine, United States.
Appetite. 2018 Jun 1;125:295-301. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.02.009. Epub 2018 Feb 14.
The feeding strategies that parents use with their children shape their children's attitudes and behaviors toward food. The present research examined whether personality traits of the mother and the child are associated with the types of feeding strategies mothers use with their children. The present research also examined whether these characteristics are associated with the child's body mass index (BMI). Mothers (N = 2928) reported how often they used three feeding strategies (Restriction, Pressure to Eat, Monitoring) with the target child and their personality and the personality of the child. Both mother and child Conscientiousness were associated significantly with less use of Restriction and Pressure to Eat and more use of Monitoring. Child Openness and Agreeableness were likewise related to less use of Restriction and Pressure to Eat. Mother and child Conscientiousness were associated with child obesity: Children with obesity scored lower in Conscientiousness and also had mothers who scored lower on this trait; Restriction and Pressure to Eat partially mediated the association between mother Conscientiousness and child BMI. The present findings suggest that individual differences in both mother and child personality are associated with the use of three common feeding strategies in childhood and the child's weight.
父母对孩子的喂养策略塑造了孩子对食物的态度和行为。本研究考察了母亲和孩子的个性特征是否与母亲对孩子使用的喂养策略类型有关。本研究还考察了这些特征是否与孩子的体重指数（BMI）有关。母亲（N=2928）报告了她们使用三种喂养策略（限制、强迫进食、监督）的频率，以及目标孩子及其个性和孩子个性的情况。母亲和孩子的尽责性与限制和强迫进食的使用频率显著降低以及监督的使用频率显著增加有关。孩子的开放性和宜人性也与限制和强迫进食的使用频率降低有关。母亲和孩子的尽责性与孩子肥胖有关：肥胖儿童的尽责性得分较低，而且母亲的这一特征得分也较低；限制和强迫进食在一定程度上中介了母亲尽责性与孩子 BMI 之间的关系。本研究结果表明，母亲和孩子的个性差异与儿童时期三种常见喂养策略的使用以及孩子的体重有关。
