Correlation between Children's eating behaviors and caregivers' feeding behaviors among preschool children in China.

Correlation between Children's eating behaviors and caregivers' feeding behaviors among preschool children in China. Appetite. 2019 Mar 24;: Authors: Yuan J, Zhang Y, Lu Z, Xu T, Zhang H, Tan MMZ, Yu L, Jiang X, Shang L Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between caregivers' feeding behaviors and children's eating behaviors among preschoolers in China. From April to July 2016, a cross-sectional survey was administered to 912 preschoolers' caregivers in China. The Chinese Preschooler's Caregiver Feeding Behavior Scale (CPCFBS) and Chinese Preschooler's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CPEBQ) were used to assess caregivers' feeding behaviors and children's eating behaviors, respectively. Pearson correlation and canonical correlation analysis (CCA) based on principal component analysis were performed to explore the relationships between them. Two interpretable canonical variables and structures were yielded through CCA. The first canonical variable could explain 35.1% and 29.0% of the total variance of the caregivers' feeding behaviors and the children's eating behaviors variable groups, respectively, with a canonical correlation coefficient of 0.659 (rU1,V1 = 0.659, P < 0.001). The second canonical variable could explain 17.6% and 14.9% of the total variance of the caregivers' feeding behaviors and the children's eating behaviors variable groups, respectively, with a canonical correlation coefficient...
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