Nutritional knowledge, parenting styles and feeding practices of a South African sample of parents
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Date
2019
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Routledge
Abstract
Parenting can be considered as being an all-encompassing network of development for children. Children learn about eating not
only through their own experiences but also by watching others.
Mothers and children show similar patterns of food acceptance
and food preferences. Children’s intake of fruit and vegetables was
positively related to parents’ intake of fruit and vegetables. The
current study used self-reported data from parents/primary caregivers' children aged 3–18 covering sociodemographic characteristics, feeding style dimensions (‘control overeating’, ‘emotional
feeding’, ‘encouragement to eat’ and ‘instrumental feeding’) and
parenting style dimensions (‘involvement’ and ‘strictness’). The
results suggest, that in general, parents were inclined to encourage
balance and variety in the food intake of their children, modeling
healthy eating behavior, as well as monitoring the food intake of
children while restricting unhealthy foods. Further research is
needed into whether parents’ diets affect children’s food choices
feeding.
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Parenting, Nutritional knowledge, Parent psychological control, Feeding practices, South Africa
Citation
Brown, M., & Roman, N. V. (2019). Nutritional knowledge, parenting styles and feeding practices of a South African sample of parents . Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 58(6), 529–547. https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2019.1641800