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Uninvolved Maternal Feeding Style Moderates The Association Of Emotional Overeating To Preschoolers’ Body Mass Index Z-Scores, Maren Hankey, Natalie A. Williams, Dipti A. Dev
Uninvolved Maternal Feeding Style Moderates The Association Of Emotional Overeating To Preschoolers’ Body Mass Index Z-Scores, Maren Hankey, Natalie A. Williams, Dipti A. Dev
Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications
Objective: To examine the relation between preschoolers' eating behaviors and body mass index (BMI) z-scores (BMIz) and the moderating role of permissive parent feeding styles in these associations.
Design: Cross-sectional study involving mothers' report of food-related parenting styles and child eating behaviors.
Setting: Small city in southern Mississippi.
Participants: Mother–preschooler dyads (n = 104).
Main Outcome Measure: Child body BMIz.
Analysis: Moderated multiple regression.
Results: An uninvolved feeding style moderated the relationship between emotional eating and BMIz such that children with higher emotional overeating scores had higher a BMIz in the presence of an uninvolved feeding style (B …