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 2017 study inspected the relationship between parents’ food-related practices and the child’s food preferences. Through the use of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) and the Preschool Adapted Food Liking Scale (PALS), Vollmer & Baietto determined the association between each food-related parenting practice with various food categories on PALS including fruits, vegetables, and high […]

In this 2017 study, the relationship between parental mindful feeding (which is the parent’s mental and emotional presence while feeding a child) and their children’s food intake was investigated. The participants were parents (79% non-Hispanic white; 76% female) of children aged 2.9 to 7.5 years recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). In unadjusted models, mindful […]