Maternal discouragement and child intake of a palatable dessert: A multilevel sequential analysis

Abstract

Children may be more apt to comply with their mother's mealtime commands if they are delivered with a direct approach and a positive affective valence. Future work should examine the longitudinal effects of using positive direct mealtime commands on children's food intake, weight gain and emotional health.

Approaches to restrictive feeding: Associations with child weight and eating behavior

“…However, these analyses did not consider the combination of affect and directness together despite literature suggesting differences in child compliance in response to parental statements that are warm versus harsh, and direct versus indirect (Kuczynski, Kochanska, Radke-Yarrow, & Girnius-Brown, 1987; Owen, Slep, & Heyman, 2012; Wilson & Wood, 2004). These findings, along with the team’s work among a small sample of parents providing preliminary evidence of the feasibility of characterizing restrictive statements by affect and directness (Pesch, Berlin, et al, 2018), support the assertion that looking beyond whether mothers endorse beliefs and practices with regard to restriction, to the qualities of their restrictive statements, may yield important insight into harmful versus effective approaches to limit children’s intake. Given this knowledge, it is critical to understand parents’ use of statements that vary on dimensions of affect and directness in order to ultimately identify how these approaches to moderating children’s eating may impact children’s eating cognitions and behaviors.…”

Factores protectores y de riesgos en conductas alimentarias de madres e hijos

“…A partir de los relatos de las díadas se pudo constatar el modelaje vía conversación en torno al cuidado de la salud, lo que se traduce en la existencia de otro FP al interior de la familia para favorecer conductas saludables (Pesch et al, 2018).…”

“…Según Pesch et al (2018), la utilización de un enfoque directo y valencia afectiva positiva por parte de la madre, por sobre el uso de recompensas, puede ser un elemento facilitador a la hora de exigir a los hijos que coman. En cambio, los hallazgos de De Jesús et al (2018) enfatizan la importancia de modelar la alimentación saludable a través de la acción más que por la vía de la conversación.…”

Observed restrictive feeding practices among low‐income mothers of pre‐adolescents

“…One of the most important contributions of this study is the use of a carefully implemented laboratory protocol designed to elicit restrictive feeding among mothers. The current protocol, in which dyads were served a meal and then presented with large portions of common sweet foods while the meal was still available, was expanded from the protocol used by Pesch et al, 26,[31][32][33] which provided dyads with chocolate cupcakes and only elicited restrictive statements in approximately half of mothers. However, the use of a new protocol means that findings across study samples cannot be perfectly compared.…”

“…29 However, despite only a modest correlation between these two types of restriction, 27 many studies combine the two for analysis. Alternatively, in a series of studies, Pesch et al 26,[31][32][33] differentiated statements that mothers used to restrict their young children's eating during a laboratory-based eating protocol where children were presented a large portion of cupcakes by their degree of directness and affect.…”