The mediating effect of pressure to eat between parents' feeding strategy and children's problematic eating behaviors was investigated using the Feeding Strategy Questionnaire, Pressure to Eat Questionnaire, and Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire. The participants were 497 parents of 3-to 9-year-old children. The results showed that: 1) parents' explanative, coercive, and contingent strategy positively predicted children's satiety responsiveness/slowness in eating (i.e., feel full or eat for a long time during eating) and emotional under-eating (i.e., eat less when in a bad emotion); coercive strategy also negatively predicted the enjoyment of food; 2) pressure to eat mediated the effect of explanative, coercive, and contingent strategy on children's satiety responsiveness/slowness in eating; 3) these findings were consistent across ages.
The preference of fairness in human beings is closely related to the whole collaboration system of our civilization, which is significant in human evolution. The preference of fairness appears in the early developmental stage of human beings. This experiment explored children's preference of fairness in a resource allocation task, whether it was affected by the social status of recipients. Forty-two children aged between 3 and 4 years participated in the experiment, in which they allocated toys and food between a teacher doll and a child doll. Results showed that children less than 3.5 years old allocated resource in favor of adults with higher social status. Children more than 3.5 years old showed a preference of fair solution. This result indicates that children develop understanding of fairness between 3 and 4 years of their life, which helps them better interact with others socially. This finding is beneficial to moral and social education in preschools.
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