TY - JOUR
T1 - Parenting styles, food-related parenting practices, and children's healthy eating
T2 - A meditation analysis to examine relationships between parenting and child diet
AU - Lopez, Nanette V.
AU - Schembre, Susan
AU - Belcher, Britni R.
AU - O'Connor, Sydney
AU - Maher, Jaclyn P.
AU - Arbel, Reout
AU - Margolin, Gayla
AU - Dunton, Genevieve F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - Parents exert a strong influence on their children's diet. While authoritative parenting style is linked to healthier weight and dietary outcomes in children, and authoritarian and permissive parenting styles with unhealthy eating, little is known about the mechanisms that mediate these relationships. Feeding styles are often examined in relation to child diet, but they do not consider the social and physical environmental contexts in which dietary behaviors occur. Therefore, this study examined whether parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) were associated with three specific food-related parenting practices - mealtime structural practices (e.g., eating meals as a family), parent modeling of healthy food, and household food rules and whether these parenting practices mediated the association between parenting styles and children's diet. Participants were 174 mother-child dyads. Mothers (68% married, 58% college graduates, M age = 41 years [SD = 6.2]) reported on their parenting practices using validated scales and parenting style using the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. Children (52% female, M age = 10 years [SD = 0.9]) completed two telephone-based 24-hour dietary recalls. Dietary outcomes included the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2010 score, and fruit and vegetables and added sugar intake. Using PROCESS, multiple mediation cross-sectional analyses with parallel mediators using 10,000 bootstraps were performed. Significant indirect effects were observed with mealtime structure and the relationships between authoritative parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = 0.045, p <.05, CI = [0.006, 0.126]), authoritarian parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = −0.055, p <.05, CI = [-0.167, −0.001]), and permissive parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = −0.093, p <.05, CI = [-0.265, −0.008]). Child diet quality is affected by mealtime structural practices. Further examination of the features by which mealtime structural practices serve as a mechanism for parents to support healthy eating among their children may improve children's diet quality.
AB - Parents exert a strong influence on their children's diet. While authoritative parenting style is linked to healthier weight and dietary outcomes in children, and authoritarian and permissive parenting styles with unhealthy eating, little is known about the mechanisms that mediate these relationships. Feeding styles are often examined in relation to child diet, but they do not consider the social and physical environmental contexts in which dietary behaviors occur. Therefore, this study examined whether parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) were associated with three specific food-related parenting practices - mealtime structural practices (e.g., eating meals as a family), parent modeling of healthy food, and household food rules and whether these parenting practices mediated the association between parenting styles and children's diet. Participants were 174 mother-child dyads. Mothers (68% married, 58% college graduates, M age = 41 years [SD = 6.2]) reported on their parenting practices using validated scales and parenting style using the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. Children (52% female, M age = 10 years [SD = 0.9]) completed two telephone-based 24-hour dietary recalls. Dietary outcomes included the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2010 score, and fruit and vegetables and added sugar intake. Using PROCESS, multiple mediation cross-sectional analyses with parallel mediators using 10,000 bootstraps were performed. Significant indirect effects were observed with mealtime structure and the relationships between authoritative parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = 0.045, p <.05, CI = [0.006, 0.126]), authoritarian parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = −0.055, p <.05, CI = [-0.167, −0.001]), and permissive parenting and HEI-2010 score (b = −0.093, p <.05, CI = [-0.265, −0.008]). Child diet quality is affected by mealtime structural practices. Further examination of the features by which mealtime structural practices serve as a mechanism for parents to support healthy eating among their children may improve children's diet quality.
KW - Child diet
KW - Food-related parenting practices
KW - Parenting style
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.021
DO - 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 29920321
AN - SCOPUS:85048797886
SN - 0195-6663
VL - 128
SP - 205
EP - 213
JO - Appetite
JF - Appetite
ER -