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

Eat Behav. 2023 Aug 19;50:101795. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2023.101795. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParents' use of food to regulate children's emotions (i.e., emotion regulation feeding) has been associated with children's emotional overeating. However, less is known about how parents' emotion regulation feeding acts as a moderator between parents' emotion dysregulation and children's emotional overeating. A total of 216 parents (Mage = 35.84 years, SD = 6.11) of 3- to 5-year-old children were recruited to complete an online survey. Analyses revealed that emotion regulation feeding moderated the association between parents' emotion dysregulation and children's emotional overeating, such that parents with high emotion dysregulation and high emotion regulation feeding had children who engaged in more emotional overeating compared to parents with low emotion regulation feeding. This finding suggests that less adaptive feeding aggravates the association between parents' emotion dysregulation and children's emotional overeating.PMID:37633220 | DOI:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2023.101795
Source: Eating Behaviors - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Source Type: research