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Relationships between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits: The moderating role of infant

Yan Liu1, Yan Kong2, Zhihui Li2

  • 1School of Nursing, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

Frontiers in Psychology
|February 23, 2023
PubMed

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Parental responsive feeding impacts infant food approach and avoidance. Infant temperament, particularly surgency, moderates this relationship, guiding tailored interventions for better infant appetitive self-regulation.

Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Pediatric Nutrition
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Infant appetitive self-regulation develops significantly between 6 and 12 months.
  • Parental responsive feeding and infant temperament are key factors influencing appetitive traits.
  • Understanding these dynamics is crucial for designing effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the moderating role of infant temperament in the association between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits.
  • To identify specific infant temperaments that influence how responsive feeding affects food approach and food avoidance.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study utilizing questionnaires.
  • Data collected from 616 parents of infants aged 6-12 months.
  • Assessed parental responsive feeding, infant appetitive traits, and infant temperament.

Main Results:

  • Responsive feeding positively correlated with both food approach and food avoidance.
  • Lower infant surgency moderated the link between responsive feeding and food approach.
  • Responsive feeding was linked to food avoidance across all infant temperaments.

Conclusions:

  • Responsive feeding interventions can reduce infant food avoidance and promote food approach in infants with low surgency.
  • Further research is needed for tailored interventions targeting food approach in infants with specific temperaments (effortful control, negative affect, high surgency).
Abstract

Keywords:
appetitive traitsinfantsparentsresponsive feedingtemperament

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