TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal Education Is Associated with Feeding Style
AU - Saxton, Jennifer
AU - Carnell, Susan
AU - van Jaarsveld, Cornelia H.M.
AU - Wardle, Jane
N1 - Funding Information:
There is no known conflict of interest to be acknowledged by any of the authors. The research was funded by a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (D19086).
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - Maternal feeding styles may be influenced by maternal education, with implications for children's dietary quality and adiposity. One-hundred and eighty mothers completed the Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire, which includes scales assessing four aspects of feeding style, ie, control over feeding, emotional feeding, instrumental feeding, and encouragement/prompting to eat. Mothers with higher education had significantly higher scores on control over feeding [F(1,177)=8.79; P=0.003] and significantly lower emotional feeding scores [F(1,177)=7.26; P=0.008] than those with lower education. There were no differences for instrumental feeding or encouragement/prompting to eat (P>0.05). These findings suggest modest but potentially important differences in maternal control and emotional feeding styles by maternal education. Should these feeding characteristics prove salient to childhood diet and weight, this could inform appropriately targeted parental feeding advice.
AB - Maternal feeding styles may be influenced by maternal education, with implications for children's dietary quality and adiposity. One-hundred and eighty mothers completed the Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire, which includes scales assessing four aspects of feeding style, ie, control over feeding, emotional feeding, instrumental feeding, and encouragement/prompting to eat. Mothers with higher education had significantly higher scores on control over feeding [F(1,177)=8.79; P=0.003] and significantly lower emotional feeding scores [F(1,177)=7.26; P=0.008] than those with lower education. There were no differences for instrumental feeding or encouragement/prompting to eat (P>0.05). These findings suggest modest but potentially important differences in maternal control and emotional feeding styles by maternal education. Should these feeding characteristics prove salient to childhood diet and weight, this could inform appropriately targeted parental feeding advice.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jada.2009.02.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jada.2009.02.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 19394477
AN - SCOPUS:65249167628
SN - 0002-8223
VL - 109
SP - 894
EP - 898
JO - Journal of the American Dietetic Association
JF - Journal of the American Dietetic Association
IS - 5
ER -