title: How parental dietary behavior and food parenting practices affect children's dietary behavior. Interacting sources of influence?
abstract: Until now, the literatures on the effects of food parenting practices and parents' own dietary behavior on children's dietary behavior have largely been independent from one another. Integrating findings across these areas could provide insight on simultaneous and interacting influences on children's food intake. In this narrative review, we provide a conceptual model that bridges the gap between both literatures and consists of three main hypotheses. First, parental dietary behavior and food parenting practices are important interactive sources of influence on children's dietary behavior and Body Mass Index (BMI). Second, parental influences are importantly mediated by changes in the child's home food environment. Third, parenting context (i.e., parenting styles and differential parental treatment) moderates effects of food parenting practices, whereas child characteristics (i.e., temperament and appetitive traits) mainly moderate effects of the home food environment. Future studies testing (parts of) this conceptual model are needed to inform effective parent-child overweight preventive interventions.
authors: Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, P.O. BOX 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: j.larsen@bsi.ru.nl.
authors: Junilla K
authors: JK
authors: Larsen
authors: Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, P.O. BOX 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors: Roel C J
authors: RC
authors: Hermans
authors: Department of Health Promotion, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors: Ester F C
authors: EF
authors: Sleddens
authors: Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, P.O. BOX 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Trimbos Institute, PO Box 725, 3500 AS Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors: Rutger C M E
authors: RC
authors: Engels
authors: Center for Obesity Research and Education, Department of Public Health, Temple University, 3223 N. Broad Street, Suite 175, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
authors: Jennifer O
authors: JO
authors: Fisher
authors: Department of Health Promotion, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors: Stef P J
authors: SP
authors: Kremers
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents; D010551:Personality
keywords: Children; Food parenting practices; Home food environment; Obesity; Parental dietary behavior