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Maternal eating behaviour differs between ethnic groups: Considerations for research and practice.
- Source :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition; Oct2018, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p1-1, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Abstract: Maternal eating behaviours such as cognitive restraint, uncontrolled, and emotional eating styles can have important implications for both maternal own weight, and the weight and eating behaviour of her children. Maternal eating style can affect her feeding interactions with her child, which in turn can influence their weight and eating behaviour. However, despite a body of research examining these relationships, research examining differences in maternal eating behaviour between ethnic groups is sparse with much of the research, particularly in the UK, conducted with White British samples. The aim of the current research was therefore to explore how maternal eating behaviour may differ between ethnic groups in the UK; 659 UK mothers with a child aged 5–11 years completed a self‐report questionnaire. Items included ethnicity, demographic data, and the 3‐factor eating questionnaire to measure maternal cognitive restraint, uncontrolled, and emotional eating. Mothers from Chinese backgrounds were significantly higher in cognitive restraint and lower in emotional and uncontrolled eating compared with all groups. Conversely, mothers from South Asian backgrounds were the highest in emotional and uncontrolled eating and lower in cognitive restraint than all other groups. Black mothers were also higher in uncontrolled eating compared with White British and Chinese mothers. Variations in maternal eating behaviours vary between ethnic groups. Understanding how cultural factors may influence these variations is important, as maternal eating behaviours can influence her own and her child's weight. Maternal eating behaviour may therefore be a contributor to higher levels of overweight among South Asian and Black children living in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INGESTION
ETHNIC groups
ANALYSIS of covariance
ANALYSIS of variance
BLACK people
CHI-squared test
COGNITIVE testing
STATISTICAL correlation
CULTURE
DEMOGRAPHY
EMOTIONS
FOOD habits
PSYCHOLOGY of mothers
MULTIVARIATE analysis
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SELF-evaluation
STATISTICS
DATA analysis
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17408695
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131948810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12630