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Child Obesity and Parental Concern: Mismatch, Feeding Behaviors, and Parenting Styles

TABLE 1. Means, internal consistencies, and sample size. Results HYPOTHESES 2 AND 3.

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Child Obesity and Parental Concern: Mismatch, Feeding Behaviors, and Parenting Styles

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  1. TABLE 1. Means, internal consistencies, and sample size Results HYPOTHESES 2 AND 3 Restrictive parenting style and three feeding practices -- parental external food focus, parental rationale, and perceived responsibility -- predicted parental concern about child weight after the link between child BMI z score and parental concern was controlled. Results HYPOTHESIS 1: Parental concern about child overweight did lag behind child actual weight in that 36.4% of parents of obese children and 65.2% of parents of overweight children were not concerned about their children’s weight. • Results • HYPOTHESIS 4: • Odds of child obesity were associated with permissive parenting style, Exp(b) = 2.84 (95% CI of 1.06, 7.60), P = .038, and discouraging feeding practices, Exp(b) = 3.77 (95% CI of 1.35, 10.55), P = .011. • Parental concern about child overweight was associated with an increase in the child’s odds of being obese, Exp(b) = 2.02 (95% CI of 1.41, 2.90), P = .0002. • HYPOTHESIS 5: • Greater parental control of junk foods in fall was linked to lower BMI-z fall to spring gains (β = -.215), R2 = .046, P = .046, after overweight concern was entered into the equation. Child Obesity and Parental Concern: Mismatch, Feeding Behaviors, and Parenting Styles • Conclusions • Most important among the parenting processes related to child obesity and overweight are discouraging feeding practices and permissive parenting. An increase of 1 in each predictor increases the odds of a child’s being obese by almost 4 and 3, respectively. • The lag between parental concern and actual child weight suggests parents are not aware of the seriousness of their children’s weight. Parental concern is linked to two constructive practices – feeling responsible and planning meals. However, it is also linked to a focus on external consequences of eating and restrictive parenting, both of which fail to promote child self-regulation. • Parental control of junk foods was linked to decreases in BMI-z from fall to spring suggesting the effectiveness of this practice. This project was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, AES grant number OKLO 2605.

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