Sentences with phrase «child food fussiness»

Modelling healthy eating would be associated with lower child food fussiness and higher child interest in food.

The finding that pressure to eat did not predict decreased child food fussiness 12 - month period was contrary to both the original hypothesis, and the results of a prior longitudinal study, which found that girls whose mothers used higher levels of pressure to eat when they were 7 years old, showed more fussy eating behaviour at 9 years old [15].

Not exact matches

Food fussiness measures children's picky eating behaviour (e.g. «My child is difficult to please with meals») and acceptance of new foods (e.g. «My child enjoys tasting new foods»).

One hundred and fifty - six mothers of 2 - to 4 - year - old children completed questionnaires including measures of maternal feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction, monitoring and modelling of healthy eating), child eating behaviour (food responsiveness, food fussiness and interest in food), and mother reported child height and weight.

Two analyses were conducted, with maternal feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction, monitoring and healthy modelling) as the independent variables in one analysis, and child eating behaviours (food responsiveness, food fussiness and interest in food) in the other.

The items for the two measures, food fussiness and interest in food, originated from the single measure of food fussiness from the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.

These findings are not surprising, as previous studies also did not find strong associations between child eating behavior and parental monitoring: among the parents of Australian preschoolers, no association was found between parental monitoring and children's eating in the absence of hunger [10], food fussiness and food responsiveness [38].