Houston … We Have a Problem! Measurement of Parenting

Baranowski, Tom; O’Connor, Teresia M.; Hughes, Sheryl O.; Sleddens, Ester F. C.; Beltran, Alicia; Frankel, Leslie A.; Mendoza, Jason A.; Baranowski, Janice

doi:10.1089/chi.2013.0040

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“…Parents are the main conduit of information for children, but as Baranowski et al (2013) have argued, while it is known that parents shape children's behaviours because of the direct influence on their children's behaviour, confusion exists regarding how parenting impacts on children's dietary outcomes. To date, there has been little research exploring how parents shape children's behaviours in relation to diet and healthy eating choices.…”

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Reducing adult obesity in childhood: Parental influence on the food choices of children

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2014

Health Education Journal

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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the complexities and pressures faced by parents when trying to embed knowledge of healthy eating in their children's lifestyles. Design: Qualitative design using focus groups with parents and children aged 10 to 11 years. Methods: The research was conducted in two phases. The first phase involved five focus groups with 47 children. The results of these focus groups then informed the development of a second phase consisting of three focus groups with 15 parents of these children. The findings from the children's focus groups were then discussed with parents to explore their understandings and perceptions of how children perceived health, diet and lifestyle. Results: Parents are one of the main influences when it comes to shaping their children's decisions in relation to healthy eating. Children, but also parents, appeared to only have a partial knowledge about food and diet, and parents did not know how to translate this knowledge into decisions about healthy eating. Parents in this study felt under pressure when trying to incorporate healthy messages within the context of their own lives and they also wanted to feel more confident about the role they can play in the nutritional choices of their children. Conclusion: Healthy eating strategies may need to move away from focusing solely on parents as conduits of knowledge but instead see both them and their children as playing an active part in designing interactive strategies about making healthy food choices.

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Reducing adult obesity in childhood: Parental influence on the food choices of children

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2014

Health Education Journal

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“…screen media parenting practices during the preconference to the 2012 International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) meeting ''Parenting Measurement: Current Status and Consensus Reports.'' 50 The group developed a conceptual framework for how screen media parenting practices may influence the content, context, and amount of children's screen media use (see Table 1 for definitions); discussed how the published constructs of media parenting practices may influence one or more of these screen media use domains; 45 and identified additional parenting practice constructs that warrant further study. By investigating parenting practices across the dimensions of amount, content, and context of screen use by their child, research may be able to better delineate how parents influence children's outcomes (e.g., obesity) via several of the proposed pathways.…”

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Conceptual Understanding of Screen Media Parenting: Report of a Working Group

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Screen media (television, computers, and videogames) use has been linked to multiple child outcomes, including obesity. Parents can be an important influence on children's screen use. There has been an increase in the number of instruments available to assess parenting in feeding and physical activity contexts, however few measures are available to assess parenting practices regarding children's screen media use. A working group of screen media and parenting researchers convened at the preconference workshop to the 2012 International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) annual meeting, "Parenting Measurement: Current Status and Consensus Reports," to identify and prioritize issues in assessing screen media parenting practices. The group identified that screen media use can pose different risks for children, depending on their age and developmental stage, across physiologic, psychosocial, and development outcomes. With that in mind, a conceptual framework of how parents may influence their child's screen-viewing behaviors was proposed to include the screen media content, context of viewing, and amount viewed. A research agenda was proposed to prioritize a validation of the framework and enhance the ability of researchers to best assess parenting influences across the three domains of content, context and amount of children's screen media use.

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“…Parental influences that these studies examine can typically be classified as three types-parenting practices, feeding style, and parenting style (see Baranowski et al, this issue, for definitions). 1 The three levels of parenting differ from each other in that parenting style describes parent-child interactions across a wide range of situations, whereas feeding style describes these interactions only across food-related situations, and food parenting practices are by definition domain-specific, applying to intakes of certain kind and amount of foods.…”

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General and Food-Specific Parenting: Measures and Interplay

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Background: Parental influence on child food intake is typically conceptualized at three levels-parenting practices, feeding style, and parenting style. General parenting style is modeled at the most distal level of influence and food parenting practices are conceptualized as the most proximal level of influence. The goal of this article is to provide insights into contents and explanatory value of instruments that have been applied to assess food parenting practices, feeding style, and parenting style.Methods: Measures of food parenting practices, feeding style, and parenting style were reviewed, compared, and contrasted with regard to contents, explanatory value, and interrelationships.Results: Measures that are used in the field often fail to cover the full scope and complexity of food parenting. Healthy parenting dimensions have generally been found to be positively associated with child food intake (i.e., healthier dietary intake and less intake of energy-dense food products and sugar-sweetened beverages), but effect sizes are low. Evidence for the operation of higher-order moderation has been found, in which the impact of proximal parental influences is moderated by more distal levels of parenting.Conclusions: Operationalizing parenting at different levels, while applying a contextual higher-order moderation approach, is advocated to have surplus value in understanding the complex process of parent-child interactions in the area of food intake. A research paradigm is presented that may guide future work regarding the conceptualization and modeling of parental influences on child dietary behavior.

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Houston … We Have a Problem! Measurement of Parenting

Cited by 60 publications

References 51 publications

Reducing adult obesity in childhood: Parental influence on the food choices of children

Reducing adult obesity in childhood: Parental influence on the food choices of children

Conceptual Understanding of Screen Media Parenting: Report of a Working Group

General and Food-Specific Parenting: Measures and Interplay

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