Preschool-aged children’s food approach tendencies interact with food parenting practices and maternal emotional eating to predict children’s emotional eating in a cross-sectional analysis

This follow-up study by Pickard et al. (2024) builds upon previous research using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to examine the eating behavior profiles of children aged 3-6 years. Four different eating characteristics in youngsters were found in the previous study: avoidant, cheerful, enthusiastic, and usual eating. In this study, parents of these children (N = […]

This 2018 study looked at the bidirectional relationships between maternal feeding practices and their children’s food and satiety responsiveness at 2-5 years old. Jansen et al. recruited 207 mothers who reported their own feeding practices, while their children’s eating behaviors were evaluated at age 2, 3.7, and 5 years. Maternal feeding practices such as higher […]