Department of Psychology, UNC Greensboro, USA.
Department of Psychology, UNC Greensboro, USA.
Appetite. 2022 Oct 1;177:106155. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106155. Epub 2022 Jun 30.
Picky eating in childhood is associated with children's dietary outcomes and parental feeding experiences. The Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) is a frequently-used parent-report survey that measures children's eating behaviors, including picky eating. Limited work has adapted the CEBQ into a child-friendly format to measure children's ability to report directly on their own picky eating behavior. We sought to extend previous research by adapting the Food Fussiness subscale of the CEBQ into a child self-report format and measuring parent-child resemblance in scores, with children as young as 3 years. Our final sample included 3- to 10-year-old children (n = 95) and their parents, who were assessed at a local children's museum. The internal consistency of parent-report on the CEBQ FF was α = 0.9 and child-report was α = 0.7, with parent scores predicting child scores when controlling for child age and child gender. The largest difference between parent and child scores on child picky eating (with parents reporting higher scores) was for 3- to 4-year-old children. Children are able to report on their own picky eating and with age their reports converge with those of their parents, highlighting the potential benefit of collecting picky eating scores from multiple informants (parent and child). We suggest future directions for the validation and extension of this measure.
儿童时期的挑食行为与儿童的饮食结果和父母的喂养经验有关。儿童饮食行为问卷（CEBQ）是一种常用的家长报告调查，用于衡量儿童的饮食行为，包括挑食行为。有限的工作已经将 CEBQ 改编为适合儿童使用的格式，以衡量儿童直接报告自己挑食行为的能力。我们旨在通过将 CEBQ 的食物挑剔分量表改编为儿童自我报告格式，并测量父母和孩子在评分上的相似性，来扩展之前的研究，研究对象为 3 至 10 岁的儿童（n=95）及其父母，他们在当地的儿童博物馆接受评估。父母对 CEBQ FF 的报告的内部一致性为α=0.9，儿童报告的内部一致性为α=0.7，在控制儿童年龄和性别后，父母的评分可以预测儿童的评分。在儿童挑食行为方面，父母和儿童评分之间最大的差异（父母报告的评分更高）出现在 3 至 4 岁的儿童中。儿童能够报告自己的挑食行为，随着年龄的增长，他们的报告与父母的报告趋同，这突出了从多个信息来源（父母和儿童）收集挑食评分的潜在益处。我们建议该测量方法的验证和扩展的未来方向。
