Department of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.
Eat Behav. 2021 Jan;40:101475. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101475. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
Maternal self-efficacy (MSE) is a well-established correlate of health outcomes in young children, though little is known about this association in older children. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine how MSE relates to mother-child feeding practices in middle childhood.
A total of 306 children ages 8-12 (Mean age = 9.72, SD = 0.91, 52.9% female) and their mothers participated in this study. Mothers completed the New General Self-Efficacy Scale and the Child Feeding Questionnaire. A series of hierarchical regression models were used to examine how MSE related to maternal food restriction, maternal pressure to eat, and maternal food monitoring.
After accounting for maternal Body Mass Index (BMI), education, and age, and child Body Mass Index Percentile (BMI%ile) and age within the first step of each regression model, MSE emerged as a significant predictor for maternal restriction of foods (p = .024) and maternal food monitoring (p = .048). MSE was not significantly related to maternal pressure to eat.
This study is the first to establish that higher MSE is significantly related to healthier mother-child feeding practices in middle childhood, providing preliminary justification for enhancing MSE within comprehensive family interventions to support child weight-related health.
母亲自我效能感（MSE）是幼儿健康结果的一个既定相关因素，但对于较大儿童的这种关联知之甚少。本横断面研究的目的是探讨 MSE 如何与儿童中期的母子喂养行为相关。
共有 306 名 8-12 岁的儿童（平均年龄 9.72 岁，标准差 0.91，52.9%为女性）及其母亲参与了这项研究。母亲们完成了新一般自我效能感量表和儿童喂养问卷。使用一系列分层回归模型来检验 MSE 与母亲的食物限制、母亲的进食压力和母亲的食物监测之间的关系。
在考虑了母亲的体重指数（BMI）、教育程度和年龄，以及孩子的 BMI 百分位数（BMI%ile）和年龄之后，在每个回归模型的第一步中，MSE 成为母亲限制食物（p=0.024）和母亲食物监测（p=0.048）的显著预测因子。MSE 与母亲的进食压力没有显著关系。
这项研究首次证明，较高的 MSE 与儿童中期更健康的母子喂养行为显著相关，为在全面的家庭干预中增强 MSE 以支持与儿童体重相关的健康提供了初步依据。
