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Development and Psychometric Characteristics of an Instrument to Assess Parental Feeding Practices to Promote Young Children's Eating Self-Regulation: Results with a Portuguese Sample
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A parental child-centered feeding approach is likely to keep children’s biological mechanisms activated while eating, protecting them in an obesogenic context. However, few feeding
practice measures assess parents’ behaviors to guide and prompt children to identify and respond
appropriately to their signs of hunger and satiety. We aimed to develop and study the reliability,
validity, and measurement invariance of a new scale to assess parental feeding practices to promote
children’s self-regulation of food intake. To pursue this aim, we conducted two descriptive, crosssectional, online studies in Portugal in an online format; a total of 536 parents of 2- to 6-year-old
children completed the evaluation protocol. Factorial analysis findings support the theoretical organization proposed for the scale. The confirmatory factorial analysis supported a first-order factor
structure with two subscales, Prompting for eating self-regulation and Teaching about eating consequences,
with eight items in total. Both scales presented good internal consistency and adequate temporal
stability, with a significant, positive, and moderate relationship. The results showed metric invariance
for the child’s sex. Both types of practices were positively correlated with the child’s enjoyment
of food. Prompting for eating self-regulation showed negative associations with parents’ emotional
lack of control, children’s satiety responsiveness, slowness in eating, and fussiness. Preliminary
studies confirmed both the validity and reliability of the instrument and the adequacy of adopting a
self-regulatory approach when assessing child-centered feeding practices. Combining this instrument
with others that assess coercive practices can be beneficial to capture ineffective parents’ behaviors on
children’s eating self-regulation.
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Feeding practices Parents Preschool children Eating self-regulation Scale development Psychometric study
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Gomes, A. I., Roberto, M. S., Pereira, A. I., Alves, C., João, P., Dias, A. R., Veríssimo, J., & Barros, L. (2022). Development and psychometric characteristics of an instrument to assess parental feeding practices to promote young children’s eating self-regulation: Results with a Portuguese sample. Nutrients, 14(23), 4953. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14234953