Development of the Baby Behaviors when Satiated (BABES) behavioral coding scheme.

Current infant feeding recommendations promote responsive feeding, wherein caregivers respond to infants' cues to determine feeding pace and duration, to support infant self-regulation and healthy weight outcomes. A central tenet of responsive feeding is that infants will effectively signal hunger, receptiveness to feeding, needs to disengage from feeding, and satiation, yet there is a lack of research available to support this assumption. Rather, previous research illustrates substantial variability exists for the extent to which infants exhibit behavioral cues during feeding and that many mothers feel their infants do not clearly communicate satiation, suggesting certain caregivers need tailored support to understand their infants' needs during feeding interactions.

Children's eating behavior and weight-related outcomes: A latent profile analysis of parenting style and coparenting.

Parenting style is associated with children's eating behavior, yet less is known about how parenting style and coparenting are both related to children's eating behavior (food approach behavior and palatable food intake) and weight-related outcomes (concern about child weight and perceived child weight). The aims of the current research were 1) to determine family profiles based on parenting style and coparenting, 2) to examine whether the family profiles were associated with parent (sex, BMI, age) and child (sex, age) characteristics, and 3) to examine whether the family profiles differed in children's outcomes. Parents (n = 185; M = 36.

Parents' emotion dysregulation and children's emotional overeating: The role of emotion regulation feeding.

Parents' use of food to regulate children's emotions (i.e., emotion regulation feeding) has been associated with children's emotional overeating.

Coparenting: Associations with parents' psychological distress and children's food approach behavior.

Parents' psychological distress has been associated with their children's obesogenic eating yet less is known about how coparenting moderates this relationship. The aim of the current research was 1) to examine how coparenting (general and feeding) moderates the associations between parents' psychological distress and children's food approach behavior after accounting for parents' coercive control food parenting and 2) to examine whether feeding coparenting interacted with psychological distress to predict children's food approach behavior above and beyond general coparenting. Parents (n = 216; M = 36.

Children's media use and food approach behavior: Associations with temperament and food parenting.

Children's media use has been found to be associated with obesogenic eating and obesity risk. Children's temperament and food parenting have been found to be important factors associated with children's eating behavior. The current study examined whether children's temperament and food parenting moderated the associations between children's media use and children's food approach behaviors.

Mindful feeding: Associations with COVID-19 related parent stress and child eating behavior.

Parent perceived stress has been associated with child obesogenic eating, as parents who are stressed may be less responsive to their children during mealtimes (Gemmill et al., 2013). More recently, mindfulness-based interventions have successfully reduced people's stress levels.

The associations among psychological distress, stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and disinhibited eating of parents of three- to five-year-old children.

Individuals' psychological distress is associated with disinhibited eating (external and emotional eating). The aim of the current study was to examine the moderating associations of COVID-19-related stress on parents' psychological distress (anxiety, hostility, depression) and external and emotional eating. One hundred and sixty U.

Feeding coparenting: Associations with coercive control, structure-based, and autonomy-promoting food parenting.

Feeding coparenting refers to how two parents work together in the child feeding domain. However, little is known about feeding coparenting in relation to food parenting. The current study seeks to examine 1) whether parent demographics (i.

Observed behavioral indicators of child satiation at mealtime: Associations with child characteristics and parent-reported child eating behaviors.

The notion of promoting parents' recognition of child satiation to reduce overfeeding and overeating in children is prevalent. To do so, it is important to identify common behaviors that may indicate satiation and can be easily recognized by parents. Relatively little work has focused on identifying behaviors that may indicate child satiation as they occur during naturalistic mealtimes, which is an important context for parents to observe their children's eating behavior.

Associations between supportive and undermining coparenting and controlling feeding practices.

Parents play an important role in shaping child eating and weight outcomes through feeding practices. Controlling feeding practices are positively related to child obesogenic eating and obesity risk. Although many parents' characteristics have been examined in relation to controlling feeding practices, less is known about the role of coparenting.

Anti-fat attitudes and dietary restraint within mother-daughter dyads: an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) analysis.

Purpose: This study examined the association between anti-fat attitudes (fear of fat, dislike of fat, willpower) and dietary restraint within the mother-daughter relationship.

Methods: Mother-adolescent daughter dyads (N = 100) were recruited from a Midwestern community to participate in a study together. They completed self-report measures of anti-fat attitudes and eating behavior.

Mother-daughter negative body talk as a moderator between body surveillance and body shame in adolescent girls.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of mother-daughter communication about their bodies on adolescent girls' and mothers' body shame.

Methods: The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was utilized to estimate relationships between individuals' body surveillance and their own body shame (actor effect), individuals' body surveillance and the other member's body shame (partner effect), and negative body talk and both members' body shame (relationship effect) in a sample of 100 mother-daughter dyads.

Results: For both mothers and daughters, individuals who had higher body surveillance reported higher body shame.

Coparenting in the feeding context: perspectives of fathers and mothers of preschoolers.

Purpose: This study examined how fathers and mothers coparent around child feeding.

Methods: Father-mother pairs (N = 30) of preschool-aged children (M child age = 4.1 years old) participated in joint or group interview sessions.

Development and preliminary validation of a feeding coparenting scale (FCS).

Evidence is growing that fathers, along with mothers, play an important role in children's eating and obesity risk. Qualitative work with a small sample found that the roles of fathers and mothers are not mutually exclusive in shaping their child's eating behaviors, rather fathers and mothers may relate to one another in their roles as parents in food parenting (i.e.

Interactive role of weight status and fat talk on body dissatisfaction: an observation of women friends.

Purpose: The current study examined the interactive role of weight status and fat talk on body dissatisfaction among women friends.

Method: Sixty pairs of women friends completed a measure of body dissatisfaction and engaged in an observed fat talk interaction with their friend.

Results: Women's weight status was related to their own, but not their friend's, body dissatisfaction.

Longitudinal associations between eating and drinking engagement during mealtime and eating in the absence of hunger in low income toddlers.

To develop effective obesity-related interventions during early life, it is important to identify predictors of eating in the absence of hunger during toddlerhood. Hence, this study examined longitudinal associations between child eating and drinking engagement at 27 months of age and child eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) at 33 months of age (N = 91 children; 57.1% boys).

Associations Between Cool and Hot Executive Functions and Children's Eating Behavior.

Purpose Of Review: Studies on obesogenic eating behaviors in young children have mainly focused on the roles of family environment and parental behaviors. However, intrapersonal characteristics, particularly executive functions, have recently gained more attention in the literature. Therefore, herein we review work on children's executive functions (EFs), particularly the roles of cold and hot executive functions on children's obesogenic eating behaviors.

The effects of happiness and sadness on Children's snack consumption.

Children appear to engage in emotional eating (i.e., eating in response to negative and positive emotions), but existing research has predominantly relied on parent-report and child-report, which may not necessarily reflect children's actual emotional eating behaviors.

The role of fat talk in eating pathology and depressive symptoms among mother-daughter dyads.

The present study investigated how eating pathology and depressive symptoms were related to the dyadic dynamics of fat talk in mother-daughter relationships during adolescence. The current sample included 100 mother-daughter dyads who completed a survey on their fat talk disclosure, eating pathology, and depressive symptoms. The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) was utilized for the dyadic data.

Fear of fat and restrained eating: negative body talk between female friends as a moderator.

Purpose: This study examined whether engagement in negative body talk would moderate the association between fear of fat and restrained eating among female friend dyads.

Methods: Female friends (N = 130) were recruited from a Midwestern university in the United States. The dyadic data were examined with an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM).

Interdependence of attachment styles and relationship quality in parent-adolescent dyads.

The current study examined how attachment styles of parents and adolescents may jointly influence the quality of their relationship. Parent-adolescent (N = 77) pairs were recruited from a Midwestern town in the United States. The mean of adolescents' age was 16.

Body talk, weight status, and pathological eating behavior in romantic relationships.

This study examined whether engagement in body talk would interact with weight status (body mass index; BMI) to predict pathological eating behaviors among romantically involved adults. Adults (N = 137, females = 86.86%, average age = 23.

Maternal emotional feeding practices and adolescent daughters' emotional eating: Mediating roles of avoidant and preoccupied coping.

The current study examined the link between early childhood emotional feeding and adolescent girls' emotional eating, using maladaptive coping styles as the underlying mechanisms mediating these associations. We examined adolescent girls' and mothers' retrospective reports of emotional feeding during childhood, as well as adolescent girls' current reports of their coping behaviors (i.e.

Retrospective reports of parental feeding practices and emotional eating in adulthood: The role of food preoccupation.

The current study examined the role of food preoccupation as a potential mediator of the associations between parental feeding behaviors during childhood (i.e., restriction for weight, restriction for health, emotion regulation) and emotional eating in adulthood.

Interdependence of depressive symptoms, school involvement, and academic performance between adolescent friends: A dyadic analysis.

Background: Friendships play an important role in the development of school involvement and academic performance during adolescence. This study examined the interdependence of depressive symptoms, school involvement, and academic performance between adolescent same-sex friends.

Aims: Using cross-sectional data, we examined whether the link between depressive symptoms and academic performance would be mediated by school involvement at the intrapersonal (actor) and interpersonal (partner) levels.