TY - JOUR
T1 - Parent use of food to soothe infant/toddler distress and child weight status. An exploratory study
AU - Stifter, Cynthia A.
AU - Anzman-Frasca, Stephanie
AU - Birch, Leann L.
AU - Voegtline, Kristin
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by a grant to the first author from the National Institutes of Digestive Diseases and Kidney ( DK081512 ). The authors want to thank the families who participated in the study.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - The aim of the present study was to explore the parent feeding practice of using food to soothe infant/toddler distress and its relationship to child weight status. Seventy eight families with infants and toddlers (43 males) ranging in age from 3 to 34 months (M = 14 mos, SD = 9 mos) completed a survey which included questions on their use of food to soothe, questionnaires on parent feeding practices, parenting self-efficacy, child temperament and child's weight and length at the time of their last well-baby visit. Results revealed the use of food to soothe to be a valid construct. In addition, mothers who used food to soothe rated themselves lower in parenting self-efficacy and their children higher in temperamental negativity. Analyses examining weight status as the outcome variable revealed that mothers who reported the use of food to soothe had heavier children, however, this relationship was stronger for children rated as high in temperamental negativity.
AB - The aim of the present study was to explore the parent feeding practice of using food to soothe infant/toddler distress and its relationship to child weight status. Seventy eight families with infants and toddlers (43 males) ranging in age from 3 to 34 months (M = 14 mos, SD = 9 mos) completed a survey which included questions on their use of food to soothe, questionnaires on parent feeding practices, parenting self-efficacy, child temperament and child's weight and length at the time of their last well-baby visit. Results revealed the use of food to soothe to be a valid construct. In addition, mothers who used food to soothe rated themselves lower in parenting self-efficacy and their children higher in temperamental negativity. Analyses examining weight status as the outcome variable revealed that mothers who reported the use of food to soothe had heavier children, however, this relationship was stronger for children rated as high in temperamental negativity.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appet.2011.08.013
DO - 10.1016/j.appet.2011.08.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 21896298
AN - SCOPUS:80052852165
SN - 0195-6663
VL - 57
SP - 693
EP - 699
JO - Appetite
JF - Appetite
IS - 3
ER -