Infant emotional distress, maternal restriction at a home meal, and child BMI gain through age 6years in the Colorado Adoption Project

Hittner, James B.; Johnson, Cassandra; Tripicchio, Gina L.; Faith, Myles S.

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2016.01.008

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“…Child temperament has also been examined in relation to children's eating and OW/OB with evidence that dimensions of temperament such as externalizing temperament, low persistence or higher negativity, difficult temperament, emotional distress, and emotionality are risk factors for obesity or weight gain. Temperament has also been linked with the personality trait of impulsivity that in turn has been shown to contribute to OW/OB …”

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“…There is evidence that innate child predispositions for higher BMI evoke parental feeding practices such as restriction and pressure to eat . Parental responses such as restrictive feeding or less pressure to eat could be mediated by perceptions of the child being overweight and/or concerns about child weight or partly in response to child temperament . Gross et al provide an illustration of the mediating role of maternal perceptions in feeding interactions.…”

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A biopsychosocial approach to processes and pathways in the development of overweight and obesity in childhood: Insights from developmental theory and research

Russell

2019

Obesity Reviews

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Summary Childhood obesity has reached alarming proportions in many countries. There is consensus that both biological (especially genetic) and environmental (including psychosocial) factors contribute to weight gain and obesity in childhood. Research has identified extensive risk or predictive factors for childhood obesity from both of these domains. There is less consensus about the developmental processes or pathways showing how these risk factors lead to overweigh/obesity (OW/OB) in childhood. We outline a biopsychosocial process model of the development of OW/OB in childhood. The model and associated scholarship from developmental theory and research guide an analysis of research on OW/OB in childhood. The model incorporates biological factors such as genetic predispositions or susceptibility genes, temperament, and homeostatic and allostatic processes with the psychosocial and behavioral factors of parenting, parental feeding practices, child appetitive traits, food liking, food intakes, and energy expenditure. There is an emphasis on bidirectional and transactional processes linking child biology and behavior with psychosocial processes and environment. Insights from developmental theory and research include implications for conceptualization, measurement, research design, and possible multiple pathways to OW/OB. Understanding the developmental processes and pathways involved in childhood OW/OB should contribute to more targeted prevention and intervention strategies in childhood.

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A biopsychosocial approach to processes and pathways in the development of overweight and obesity in childhood: Insights from developmental theory and research

Russell

2019

Obesity Reviews

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“…As well, both general and feeding-specific parenting have been associated with child weight in prior work (Vollmer & Mobley, 2013). Recent research on early childhood weight gain has highlighted the need to consider child characteristics in relation to parenting, finding that observed infant negative reactivity was associated with weight gain from age 1 to 3 years only in the context of lower parent self-efficacy (Anzman-Frasca et al, 2013) and that observed maternal restrictive feeding was associated with increased BMI for girls, but with declines in BMI for boys from ages 2–6 years (Hittner, Johnson, Tripicchio, & Faith, 2016). Therefore, articulating how both general and food-related parenting may shape or interact with child SR in predicting weight may be an important future research direction.…”

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Observed self-regulation is associated with weight in low-income toddlers

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Obesity emerges in early childhood and tracks across development. Self-regulation develops rapidly during the toddler years, yet few studies have examined toddlers’ self-regulation in relation to concurrent child weight. Further, few studies compare child responses in food and non-food-related tasks. Our goal was to examine toddlers’ observed behavioral and emotional self-regulation in food and non-food tasks in relation to their body mass index z-score (BMIz) and weight status (overweight/obese vs. not). Observational measures were used to assess self-regulation (SR) in four standardized tasks in 133 low-income children (M age=33.1 months; SD=0.6). Behavioral SR was measured by assessing how well the child could delay gratification for a snack (food-related task) and a gift (non-food-related task). Emotional SR was measured by assessing child intensity of negative affect in two tasks designed to elicit frustration: being shown, then denied a cookie (food-related) or a toy (non-food-related). Task order was counterbalanced. BMIz was measured. Bivariate correlations and regression analyses adjusting for child sex, child race/ethnicity, and maternal education were conducted to examine associations of SR with weight. Results were that better behavioral SR in the snack delay task associated with lower BMIz (β=−0.27, p<.05) and lower odds of overweight/obesity (OR=0.66, 95% CI 0.45, 0.96), but behavioral SR in the gift task did not associate with BMIz or weight status. Better emotional SR in the non-food task associated with lower BMIz (β= −0.27, p<.05), and better emotional SR in food and non-food tasks associated with lower odds of overweight/obesity (OR=0.65, 95% CI 0.45, 0.96 and OR=0.56, 95% CI 0.37, 0.87, respectively). Results are discussed regarding how behavioral SR for food and overall emotional SR relate to weight during toddlerhood, and regarding early childhood obesity prevention implications.

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“…Again, there is some evidence that this association may start in childhood. Emotional distress measured during feeding in infancy is associated with greater weight gain in early childhood (18) and a difficult temperament is associated with greater weight gain in the first year of life (19). Also similar to conscientiousness-related traits, the associations may be long lasting.…”

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“…In childhood, some find gender differences in the association between conscientiousness-related traits and weight gain, but in the opposite direction as in adulthood (14). The association between neuroticism and BMI may likewise be stronger among women than men (7), whereas the moderating effect of gender may (14, 19) or may not (18) hold in childhood. Finally, there is mixed evidence that the association between extraversion and BMI is moderated by gender in adulthood (23, 24).…”

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Temperament and body weight from ages 4 to 15 years

2017

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Background/Objectives In adulthood, conscientiousness and neuroticism are correlates of body weight and weight gain. The present research examines whether the childhood antecedents of these traits, persistence and negative reactivity, respectively, are associated with weight gain across childhood. We likewise examine sociability as a predictor of childhood weight gain and whether these three traits are associated with weight concerns and weight management strategies in adolescence. Subjects/Methods Participants (N=4,153) were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, an ongoing, population-based study of child and family health and well-being. At the baseline assessment, caregivers reported on their child's temperament. At every assessment from ages 4-5 to 14-15, study children were weighed and measured by trained staff; there were up to six biennial assessments of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. At age 14-15, study children (n=2,975) also self-reported on their weight concerns and weight management strategies. Results Study children rated lower in persistence or higher in negative reactivity in early childhood gained more weight between the ages of 4 and 15. Sociability was associated with weight gain among girls but not among boys. Lower persistence and higher negative reactivity at age 4-5 were also associated with greater weight concerns, restrained eating, and use of unhealthy weight management strategies at ages 14-15. Conclusions Childhood traits related to conscientiousness and neuroticism are associated with objective weight gain across childhood and with concerns and strategies to manage weight in adolescence. These results are consistent with a lifespan perspective that indicates that trait psychological functioning contributes to health-related markers from childhood through old age.

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Infant emotional distress, maternal restriction at a home meal, and child BMI gain through age 6years in the Colorado Adoption Project

Cited by 24 publications

References 61 publications

A biopsychosocial approach to processes and pathways in the development of overweight and obesity in childhood: Insights from developmental theory and research

A biopsychosocial approach to processes and pathways in the development of overweight and obesity in childhood: Insights from developmental theory and research

Observed self-regulation is associated with weight in low-income toddlers

Temperament and body weight from ages 4 to 15 years

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