Child Disinhibition, Parent Restriction, and Child Body Mass Index in Low-income Preschool Families

Controlling parental feeding practices and child body composition in ethnically and economically diverse preschool children

“…Our results indicated that pressure to eat and restriction of unhealthy or snack foods were positively correlated with each other, suggesting that indeed, they are both forms of controlling parental feeding practices but they comprise distinct dimensions. In line with prior research, our results are best understood by taking into account the bidirectional nature of child characteristics and parental feeding practices (also see Sparks & Radnitz, 2013). Our study further contributes to the literature by situating these relationships within the socio-demographic context of the family.…”

“…Although researchers find that overweight and obesity are more prevalent in low SES and ethnic minority groups (Ogden, Carroll, Curtin, Lamb, & Flegal, 2010; Shrewsbury & Wardle, 2008; Spruijt-Metz, Li, Cohen, Birch, & Goran, 2006), limited research has examined the relationship of these socio-demographic variables with parental feeding practices (e.g., Hennessy Hughes, Goldberg, Hyatt, & Economos, 2010; Sacco, Bentley, Carby-Shields, Borja, & Goldman, 2007; Murashima et al, 2012; Sparks & Radnitz, 2013; Spruijt-Metz, Lindquist, Birch, Fisher, & Goran, 2002). Existing literature with low-income minority samples suggests that certain parental feeding practices, such as an indulgent feeding style, were associated with child overweight (Hughes, Power, Fisher, Mueller, & Nicklas, 2005).…”

Structure, coercive control, and autonomy promotion: A comparison of fathers’ and mothers’ food parenting strategies

“…Early parental food parenting practices have been linked to children’s long-term eating behaviors in longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, with coercive feeding strategies (e.g. restriction and pressure to eat) influencing later child weight status, emotional eating, and obesogenic behaviors, including overeating and consuming unhealthy foods (Farrow and Blissett, 2008; Kiefner-Burmeister et al, 2014; Orrell-Valente et al, 2007; Rodgers et al, 2013; Sparks and Radnitz, 2013; Van Strien et al, 2009). In the last few decades, there has been a substantial amount of research dedicated to maternal food parenting strategies, yet there continues to be sparse research on food parenting strategies of fathers (Adamson and Blight, 2014; Fraser et al, 2011; Goldberg et al, 2009; Guerrero et al, 2016).…”

Exploring nutrient and energy intake in infants weaned using a baby-led or traditional feeding style

“…It is possible that spoon-feeding encourages infants to ignore internal hunger cues if parents feed in a non-responsive way, for example, encouraging babies to have "just one more" spoonful when they are showing signs of being full by turning their head away. In previous research using an internet survey of 702 mothers comparing TW and BLW, it was found that those using TW exerted greater pressure to eat (Brown and Lee, 2011c), which may disrupt normal appetite cues and is in fact associated with lower weight, although the direction of influence is unclear and may be bi-directional (Farrow and Blissett, 2008;Mitchell, Farrow, Haycraft, & Meyer, 2013;Sparks and Radnitz, 2013).…”