1. Parenting styles, parental response to child emotion, and family emotional responsiveness are related to child emotional eating
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Laura Hubbs-Tait, Tay Kennedy, Julie M. Rutledge, Melanie C. Page, Glade L. Topham, Lenka H. Shriver, and Amanda W. Harrist
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Adult ,Male ,Cross-sectional study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Emotions ,Authoritarianism ,Developmental psychology ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Affection ,Intervention (counseling) ,Parenting styles ,Humans ,Emotional expression ,Parent-Child Relations ,Child ,General Psychology ,media_common ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Parenting ,Feeding Behavior ,Emotional eating ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,El Niño ,Child, Preschool ,Regression Analysis ,Female ,Psychology ,Psychopathology - Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine the relations of parenting style, parent response to negative child emotion, and family emotional expressiveness and support to child emotional eating. Mothers (N = 450) completed questionnaires and their 6–8-year-old children (N = 450) were interviewed. Results showed that emotional eating was negatively predicted by authoritative parenting style and family open expression of affection and emotion, and positively predicted by parent minimizing response to child negative emotion. Results suggest the need for early prevention/intervention efforts directed to these parenting and family variables.
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- 2011
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