To like or not to like: Negotiating food assessments of children from families with a low socioeconomic position

To like or not to like : On negotiating taste in children from families with a low socioeconomic position

“…Families consisted of at least one parent and at least one primary school-aged child. The specific composition of each family is described elsewhere (Van der Heijden, Te Molder, Huma, & Jager, 2022). Low family income and a low or medium education level of at least one parent (CBS, 2021) were used as indicators for low SEP. Education level and demographical information (i.e., age of the family members) were assessed before the families started recording.…”

“…Van der Heijden, A., Te Molder, H., Huma, B., & Jager, G. (2022) The research described in this thesis was financially supported by the Edema-Steernberg Foundation.…”

“…It indicates that healthy eating and healthiness of foods are scarcely discussed topics in these families. The scarcity becomes especially visible when compared to utterances of food liking and tastiness in the same data corpus: 96 taste evaluations were identified, and these included only the ones produced by children, not the parents (Van der Heijden et al, 2022). Furthermore, the cases for the present study were identified in video recordings of six out of the ten families.…”

“…The findings give a unique insight in how healthy eating is oriented to and constructed in the everyday life of families with a low SEP. As populations with a low SEP are largely underrepresented in research on healthy eating and only one prior study deploying DP and CA specifically topicalized SEP (Van der Heijden et al, 2022), the paper provides a valuable contribution to (interactional and other) research on healthy eating. The identification of only sixteen cases in a data corpus of 79 mealtimes is striking.…”

“…Authors: Amy van der Heijden, Hedwig te Molder, Bogdana Huma, Gerry Jager Published as: Van der Heijden, A., Te Molder, H.,Huma, B., & Jager, G. (2022).…”