Parenting styles, parental response to child emotion, and
family emotional responsiveness are related to child emotional eating.
Not exact matches
These children typically come from
families with adults who were also insecurely attached to their
families, and were thus unable to provide the kind of consistency,
emotional responsiveness, and care that securely attached parents could offer.
These children typically come from
families with adults who were also insecurely attached to their
families, and were thus unable to provide the kind of consistency,
emotional responsiveness, and care that securely attached parents could offer.
Some studies have examined the quality of the home environments of foster
families, particularly their provision of stimulation and
emotional responsiveness.
A recent random assignment intervention study examined whether mothers» responsive behaviours could be facilitated and whether such behaviours would boost young children's learning.6 To also examine the most optimal timing for intervention (e.g. across infancy versus the toddler / preschool period versus both),
families from the intervention and non-intervention groups were re-randomized at the end of the infancy phase, to either receive the
responsiveness intervention in the toddler / preschool period or not.22 The intervention was designed to facilitate mothers» use of key behaviours that provided affective -
emotional support and those that were cognitively responsive, as both types of support were expected to be necessary to promote learning.