title: Uninvolved Maternal Feeding Style Moderates the Association of Emotional Overeating to Preschoolers' Body Mass Index z-Scores.
abstract: To examine the relation between preschoolers' eating behaviors and body mass index (BMI) z-scores (BMIz) and the moderating role of permissive parent feeding styles in these associations.
  
  
  
  Cross-sectional study involving mothers' report of food-related parenting styles and child eating behaviors.
  
  
  
  Small city in southern Mississippi.
  
  
  
  Mother-preschooler dyads (n = 104).
  
  
  
  Child body BMIz.
  
  
  
  Moderated multiple regression.
  
  
  
  An uninvolved feeding style moderated the relationship between emotional eating and BMIz such that children with higher emotional overeating scores had higher a BMIz in the presence of an uninvolved feeding style (B = 2.16; P = .01).
  
  
  
  An uninvolved feeding style may be a risk factor for higher BMIz in preschoolers who tend to overeat to cope with negative emotions. For other children in this population, self-regulatory aspects of eating may be more important than mothers' feeding style in the maintenance of healthy weight.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE.
authors.forename: Maren
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hankey
authors.affiliation: Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. Electronic address: nwilliams17@unl.edu.
authors.forename: Natalie A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE.
authors.forename: Dipti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dev
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012016:Reference Values
keywords: body mass index; child; eating behavior; feeding styles; overeating