The CNP Family Environment Research Category consolidates research exploring the role and impact of family environment on child and adolescent dietary intake. To view each original study on the open internet, click “Original.” To view the CNP-written abstract summary, click “CNP Summary.” While only some of the CNP-written abstract summaries are available below for free, all abstract summaries are available to CNP members through the CNP Library Membership.
The purpose of this 2018 study was to determine whether parent feeding styles are related to the dietary quality of dinners they serve to their children. The participants included low-income minority families in Houston, Texas. The subjects agreed to take photos of their dinners at home on 3 occasions. While the overall dietary quality of the meals could be measured by using the Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010), questionnaires completed by the parents were needed to assess their feeding styles. The 4 styles of parent feeding were authoritative (highly demanding and responsive), authoritarian (highly demanding and low responsiveness), indulgent (less demanding and highly responsive), or uninvolved (less demanding and low responsiveness). The analysis model revealed that the authoritative parent feeding style was linked with significantly higher dietary quality of the meals, when compared with the authoritarian feeding style. This study provides evidence that parent feeding styles contribute to the overall dietary quality of children’s meals in low-income families. In addition, the authoritative feeding style was associated with the highest dietary quality of the 4 feeding styles tested.
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Eating meals with parents is associated with better quality of diet for Brazilian adolescents
Shopping for food with children: A strategy for directing their choices toward novel foods containing vegetables
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Family food preparation and its effects on adolescent dietary quality and eating patterns
Adolescent cooking abilities and behaviors: associations with nutrition and emotional well-being
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Systematic review of the effects of family meal frequency on psychosocial outcomes in youth
Say yes to “Sunday dinner” and no to “Nyam and scram”: family mealtimes, nutrition, and emotional health among adolescents and mothers in Jamaica
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The association between family mealtime and depression in elderly Koreans
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Is cooking at home associated with better diet quality or weight-loss intention?