title: Emotion Regulation Feeding Practices Link Parents' Emotional Eating to Children's Emotional Eating: A Moderated Mediation Study.
abstract: Past research suggests an association between parents' and children's emotional eating, but research has yet to examine mechanisms underlying this association.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The current study examined whether feeding for emotion regulation mediates the association between parents' and children's emotional eating, and whether this association is moderated by children's self-regulation in eating.
  
  
  METHODS
  95 parents reported on their own and their children's emotional eating, their children's self-regulation in eating, as well as their feeding practices.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings revealed that feeding for emotion regulation mediated the association between parents' and children's emotional eating when children's self-regulation in eating was low, but not when self-regulation in eating was high.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current findings demonstrate the complexity of the link between parents' and children's emotional eating, suggesting practitioners should consider both feeding practices and children's self-regulation in eating when designing intervention programs.
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, and cctan@umich.edu ctan1@emich.edu.
authors.forename: Cin Cin
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas.
authors.forename: Shayla C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Holub
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: children; emotional eating; feeding practices; mediation; moderation; self-regulation