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Investigating the relationship between parental weight stigma and feeding practices
Joshua M Gold1, Mark W Vander Weg2
1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52245, USA.
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|February 23, 2020
Summary
Parental weight stigma is linked to restrictive feeding practices and verbal modeling of eating behaviors in children. Concern about a child's weight may mediate this relationship, impacting healthy eating promotion.
Area of Science:
- Childhood nutrition
- Public health
- Psychology
Background:
- Promoting healthy diets in children is a key public health goal.
- Parental feeding practices significantly influence children's eating behaviors.
- Weight stigma, prejudice against individuals with excess weight, affects behaviors, but its link to parental feeding is unexplored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the association between parental weight stigma and feeding practices.
- To explore if concern about a child's weight mediates this relationship.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional study of 406 parents (with children aged 5-10, perceiving themselves as overweight/obese) recruited via Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
- Data collected on parental weight stigma and feeding practices.
- Statistical analysis adjusted for covariates; mediation analysis explored the role of concern about child weight.
Main Results:
- Parental weight stigma significantly correlated with restrictive feeding practices.
- Parental weight stigma also associated with verbal modeling of eating behaviors.
- Concern about child weight emerged as a significant mediator between weight stigma and feeding practices.
Conclusions:
- Parental weight stigma is associated with specific feeding practices, potentially influenced by concerns over child weight.
- Findings suggest weight stigma may indirectly affect children's eating environments.
- Further research and interventions addressing weight stigma in parenting are warranted.
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