title: Parenting styles, parental response to child emotion, and family emotional responsiveness are related to child emotional eating.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to examine the relations of parenting style, parent response to negative child emotion, and family emotional expressiveness and support to child emotional eating. Mothers (N=450) completed questionnaires and their 6-8-year-old children (N=450) were interviewed. Results showed that emotional eating was negatively predicted by authoritative parenting style and family open expression of affection and emotion, and positively predicted by parent minimizing response to child negative emotion. Results suggest the need for early prevention/intervention efforts directed to these parenting and family variables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oklahoma State University, 233 HES, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. glade.topham@okstate.edu
authors.forename: Glade L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Topham
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hubbs-Tait
authors.forename: Julie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rutledge
authors.forename: Melanie C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Tay S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Lenka H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Shriver
authors.forename: Amanda W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Harrist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001318:Authoritarianism; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires