TY - JOUR
T1 - Temperament as Risk and Protective Factors in Obesogenic Eating
T2 - Relations Among Parent Temperament, Child Temperament, and Child Food Preference and Eating
AU - Zhou, Zhiqing
AU - SooHoo, Michelle
AU - Zhou, Qing
AU - Perez La Mar, Marisol
AU - Liew, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
The project described was supported by Award Number R03HD058734 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Children’s food preferences and eating behaviors have implications for their health and weight status, serving as risk or protective factors for obesity. Although parent and child factors influence children’s eating, few studies have examined parent and child temperament simultaneously in relation to child food preference and eating behaviors. The authors addressed this research gap. Participants were 115 ethnically diverse children between 4 and 6 years old and their parents. Measures included parental temperament traits, parental anxiety, child temperament traits, and child food preference and eating behaviors observed using a laboratory procedure. Results show that children preferred candies over grapes, and that aspects of both child and adult temperament were related to child eating behaviors. Child surgency was linked to eating more candies, while child effortful control was linked to eating more grapes. Parent effortful control was related to children’s preference toward grapes. No relations were found between child eating behaviors and child or parent negative affectivity and parental anxiety. Overall, findings suggest that highly impulsive and poorly self-regulated children may be at risk for obesogenic eating habits.
AB - Children’s food preferences and eating behaviors have implications for their health and weight status, serving as risk or protective factors for obesity. Although parent and child factors influence children’s eating, few studies have examined parent and child temperament simultaneously in relation to child food preference and eating behaviors. The authors addressed this research gap. Participants were 115 ethnically diverse children between 4 and 6 years old and their parents. Measures included parental temperament traits, parental anxiety, child temperament traits, and child food preference and eating behaviors observed using a laboratory procedure. Results show that children preferred candies over grapes, and that aspects of both child and adult temperament were related to child eating behaviors. Child surgency was linked to eating more candies, while child effortful control was linked to eating more grapes. Parent effortful control was related to children’s preference toward grapes. No relations were found between child eating behaviors and child or parent negative affectivity and parental anxiety. Overall, findings suggest that highly impulsive and poorly self-regulated children may be at risk for obesogenic eating habits.
KW - eating behavior
KW - food preference
KW - self-control
KW - self-regulation
KW - temperament
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U2 - 10.1080/00221325.2019.1575180
DO - 10.1080/00221325.2019.1575180
M3 - Article
C2 - 30794074
AN - SCOPUS:85061965740
SN - 0022-1325
VL - 180
SP - 75
EP - 79
JO - Journal of Genetic Psychology
JF - Journal of Genetic Psychology
IS - 1
ER -