Is adolescent body weight associated with parental beliefs about overweight, attitudes towards food, and the home environment?
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Is adolescent body weight associated with parental beliefs about overweight, attitudes towards food, and the home environment? / Krömker, Dörthe; Stolberg, Andreas; Müller, Claudia; Tian, Zhe; Parlesak, Alexandr.
I: Journal of Food Reserach, Bind 4, Nr. 2, 2015, s. 104-118.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Is adolescent body weight associated with parental beliefs about overweight, attitudes towards food, and the home environment?
AU - Krömker, Dörthe
AU - Stolberg, Andreas
AU - Müller, Claudia
AU - Tian, Zhe
AU - Parlesak, Alexandr
N1 - (Ekstern)
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Parents play a crucial role in the development of childhood overweight and also in controling overweight. This study investigated a broad set of parental factors, including general attitudes towards food (price, identity, cooking, ecology, mood, dieting, convenience, functionality), social cognitions concerning overweight (risk perception, self-efficacy for exercising and healthy eating, response efficacy for exercising and healthy eating) and characteristics of the home environment (restriction of snacks, regular family meals, parents involved in sports) and their association with their children’s zBMI, i.e. adolescents between 12-19 years old. In a non-clinical sample of 842 parent-adolescent dyads we found that the zBMI is most strongly and positively associated with parental dieting attitudes and negatively with parents’ self-efficacy to motivate their children to exercise. The zBMI is negatively and weakly associated with dislike of cooking, identification with the way of eating and the perceived benefit of healthy eating (response efficacy). Half of the parents assessed theirchildren’s overweight and obesity correctly, while the other half underestimated it. No difference was found with respect to all investigated variables (general attitudes, social cognitions concerning overweight and home environment) between parents who correctly perceive and those who misperceive their children’s weight status.
AB - Parents play a crucial role in the development of childhood overweight and also in controling overweight. This study investigated a broad set of parental factors, including general attitudes towards food (price, identity, cooking, ecology, mood, dieting, convenience, functionality), social cognitions concerning overweight (risk perception, self-efficacy for exercising and healthy eating, response efficacy for exercising and healthy eating) and characteristics of the home environment (restriction of snacks, regular family meals, parents involved in sports) and their association with their children’s zBMI, i.e. adolescents between 12-19 years old. In a non-clinical sample of 842 parent-adolescent dyads we found that the zBMI is most strongly and positively associated with parental dieting attitudes and negatively with parents’ self-efficacy to motivate their children to exercise. The zBMI is negatively and weakly associated with dislike of cooking, identification with the way of eating and the perceived benefit of healthy eating (response efficacy). Half of the parents assessed theirchildren’s overweight and obesity correctly, while the other half underestimated it. No difference was found with respect to all investigated variables (general attitudes, social cognitions concerning overweight and home environment) between parents who correctly perceive and those who misperceive their children’s weight status.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Dieting
KW - Feeding practices
KW - Food choice motives
KW - Health beliefs
KW - Risk perception
KW - Restraint eating
KW - Social cognitions
U2 - 10.5539/jfr.v4n2p104
DO - 10.5539/jfr.v4n2p104
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 104
EP - 118
JO - Journal of Food Reserach
JF - Journal of Food Reserach
IS - 2
ER -
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