Bowling Green State University, 822 East Merry Street, Bowling Green, 43402, United States.
Bowling Green State University, 822 East Merry Street, Bowling Green, 43402, United States.
Eat Behav. 2020 Jan;36:101335. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.101335. Epub 2019 Oct 25.
Certain child eating behaviors (e.g., food fussiness, emotional overeating, and disruptive mealtime behaviors) can create challenges for caregivers and result in short- and long-term health consequences (e.g., lower fruit and vegetable intake, a deficiency of essential nutrients, greater intake of energy-dense foods and sugary beverages, and/or higher BMI) for the children. The role of mindful feeding-cultivating a present-centered awareness in the feeding context to increase parents' awareness of their own responsive (and non-responsive) feeding behaviors-has not been explored as it relates to parenting and children's problematic eating behaviors. The objective of this study was to understand whether the relations between parenting style and child eating behaviors often documented in the literature are mediated by mindful feeding. Using self-reports from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) of 496 mothers and fathers of young children (age 2-7 years old), we explored whether mindful feeding mediates the relation between parenting style and child eating behaviors. As hypothesized, authoritative parenting was related to higher rates of mindful feeding (β=.16, 95% C.I. [.05, .18]), while authoritarian (β=-.34, 95% C.I. [-.32, -.17]) and permissive parenting (β= -.15, 95% C.I. [-.18, -.05]) were related to lower rates of mindful feeding. Mindful feeding mediated the relation between each parenting style and each child eating behavior (i.e., food fussiness, problematic mealtime behaviors, and emotional overeating). These findings suggest that that mindful feeding may be a promising new construct, and its relation to feeding interventions aimed at improving problematic child eating behaviors should be further evaluated.
某些儿童进食行为（例如，对食物挑剔、情绪性暴食和进餐行为紊乱）会给照料者带来挑战，并导致儿童短期和长期的健康后果（例如，水果和蔬菜摄入量较低、必需营养素缺乏、能量密集型食物和含糖饮料摄入量增加，以及/或 BMI 较高）。在与育儿和儿童不良进食行为相关的方面，正念喂养——在喂养环境中培养一种当下为中心的意识，以提高父母对自身反应性（和非反应性）喂养行为的意识——的作用尚未得到探索。本研究的目的是了解文献中经常记录的养育方式与儿童进食行为之间的关系是否受到正念喂养的影响。我们使用来自亚马逊 Mechanical Turk (MTurk) 的 496 名幼儿（2-7 岁）的母亲和父亲的自我报告，探索了正念喂养是否在养育方式和儿童进食行为之间的关系中起中介作用。正如假设的那样，权威型养育方式与更高的正念喂养率相关（β=.16，95%置信区间 [.05，.18]），而专制型（β=-.34，95%置信区间 [-.32，-.17]）和放任型养育方式（β=-.15，95%置信区间 [-.18，-.05]）与更低的正念喂养率相关。正念喂养在每种养育方式与每种儿童进食行为（即，对食物挑剔、进餐行为问题和情绪性暴食）之间的关系中起中介作用。这些发现表明，正念喂养可能是一种有前途的新构念，其与旨在改善儿童不良进食行为的喂养干预措施的关系应进一步评估。
