Pliner P, Loewen E R
Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada.
Appetite. 1997 Jun;28(3):239-54. doi: 10.1006/appe.1996.0078.
We obtained measures of behavioral neophobia, rated neophobia, temperament, and liking for novel and familiar foods for 81 pairs of siblings (ranging in age from 5-11 years) and their mothers. The children's data revealed a decrease with age in behavioral but not rated neophobia, and there were positive correlations between both measures of neophobia and the temperament dimensions of emotionality, shyness, and negative reactions to foods. In addition, liking for good-tasting novel foods was negatively related to shyness and to negative reactions to foods. For mothers, both measures of neophobia were related to negative reactions to foods and unrelated to any other temperament dimensions. The data revealed little evidence of family resemblance (mother-child or sibling-sibling) in food neophobia.
我们对81对兄弟姐妹（年龄在5至11岁之间）及其母亲进行了行为性新恐惧症、评定的新恐惧症、气质以及对新奇和熟悉食物的喜好程度的测量。儿童的数据显示，行为性新恐惧症随年龄增长而下降，但评定的新恐惧症没有下降，并且两种新恐惧症测量指标与情绪性、害羞以及对食物的负面反应等气质维度之间存在正相关。此外，对味道好的新奇食物的喜好与害羞以及对食物的负面反应呈负相关。对于母亲来说，两种新恐惧症测量指标都与对食物的负面反应有关，而与任何其他气质维度无关。数据几乎没有显示出在食物新恐惧症方面存在家庭相似性（母子或兄弟姐妹之间）的证据。
