Outlier Research & Evaluation, UChicago STEM Education, University of Chicago, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA; Family Resiliency Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Jun 1;161:105137. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105137. Epub 2021 Jan 23.
This study presents development of a coding system to examine food parenting topics presented in posts on social media, and compared topics between two social media platforms (Facebook, Reddit). Publicly available social media posts were gathered from Facebook (2 groups) and Reddit (3 subreddits) and a coding system was developed based on the concept map of food parenting proposed by Vaughn et al. (2016). Based on the developed coding system, we coded posts into overarching food parenting practice constructs (coercive control: attempts to dominate, pressure or impose parents' will on child, structure: organization of child's environment to facilitate competence, autonomy support: supporting child's ability to self-regulate through allowing food choices, conversations about food, and a positive emotional climate) and recipes. We also coded posts dichotomously as including a question or advice-seeking. Differences in frequencies of food parenting constructs presented in posts on Facebook and Reddit were considered using chi-square tests of independence. Of the 2459 posts coded, 900 were related to food parenting (37%). In the subsample of 900, posts related to structure (43%) and recipes (40%) were the most frequent. Close to half of the posts (44%) included questions about food parenting. Frequency of food parenting topics in posts was related to social media platform, with coercive control and structure more frequently discussed on Reddit and recipes more commonly posted on Facebook. Results suggest that food parenting topics discuss on social media differ by platform, which can aid researchers and practitioners in targeting social media-based outreach to the topics of most interest for users. Findings give insight into the everyday food parenting topics and questions that parents and caregivers may be exposed to on social media. TAXONOMY: Development of Feeding; Parenting; Online Information Services.
本研究开发了一种编码系统，用于检查社交媒体帖子中呈现的食物养育主题，并比较了两个社交媒体平台（Facebook、Reddit）之间的主题。从 Facebook（2 个群组）和 Reddit（3 个子版块）上收集了公开可用的社交媒体帖子，并基于 Vaughn 等人提出的食物养育概念图（2016）开发了一种编码系统。基于开发的编码系统，我们将帖子编码为总体食物养育实践结构（强制性控制：试图支配、施压或强加父母意愿给孩子、结构：组织孩子的环境以促进能力、自主支持：通过允许孩子选择食物、关于食物的对话以及积极的情绪氛围来支持孩子的自我调节能力）和食谱。我们还将帖子分为是否包含问题或寻求建议。使用独立性卡方检验考虑了 Facebook 和 Reddit 帖子中呈现的食物养育结构的频率差异。在所编码的 2459 篇帖子中，有 900 篇与食物养育有关（37%）。在 900 篇样本中，与结构（43%）和食谱（40%）相关的帖子最常见。近一半（44%）的帖子包含有关食物养育的问题。帖子中食物养育主题的频率与社交媒体平台有关，强制性控制和结构在 Reddit 上讨论得更频繁，而食谱在 Facebook 上发布得更频繁。结果表明，社交媒体上讨论的食物养育主题因平台而异，这可以帮助研究人员和从业者针对用户最感兴趣的主题进行基于社交媒体的外展。研究结果深入了解了父母和照顾者可能在社交媒体上接触到的日常食物养育主题和问题。分类：喂养发展；育儿；在线信息服务。
