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Preschool-Aged Children’s Food Approach Tendencies Interact with Food Parenting Practices and Maternal Emotional Eating to Predict Children’s Emotional Eating in a Cross-Sectional Analysis
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Vol. 122Issue 8p1465–1473Published online: February 4, 2022
- Rebecca A. Stone
- Emma Haycraft
- Jacqueline Blissett
- Claire Farrow
Cited in Scopus: 1
Children’s tendency to eat while they are emotional, irrespective of satiety, is termed emotional eating (EE). EE develops early in childhood and has been associated with maternal modelling of EE and food parenting practices. In addition, individual differences in a child’s appetitive traits (ie, food approach behaviors) are related to the development of EE.