title: Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points.
abstract: Researchers use the Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ) to categorize parent feeding into authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and uninvolved styles. The CFSQ assesses self-reported feeding and classifies parents using median splits which are used in a substantial body of parenting literature and allow for direct comparison across studies on dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness. No national norms currently exist for the CFSQ. This paper establishes and recommends cutoff points most relevant for low-income, minority US samples that researchers and clinicians can use to assign parents to feeding styles. Median scores for five studies are examined and the average across these studies reported.
authors: USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030-2600, USA. shughes@bcm.edu
authors: Sheryl O
authors: SO
authors: Hughes
authors: Matthew B
authors: MB
authors: Cross
authors: Erin
authors: E
authors: Hennessy
authors: Alison
authors: A
authors: Tovar
authors: Christina D
authors: CD
authors: Economos
authors: Thomas G
authors: TG
authors: Power
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004435:Eating; D005006:Ethnicity; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States