Prospective associations between parental feeding practices used in toddlerhood and preschool children's appetite vary according to appetite avidity in toddlerhood

Alice R. Kininmonth; Moritz Herle; Emma Haycraft; Claire Farrow; Helen Croker; Abigail Pickard; Katie Edwards; Jacqueline Blissett; Clare Llewellyn

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2023.106541

Prospective associations between parental feeding practices used in toddlerhood and preschool children's appetite vary according to appetite avidity in toddlerhood

Alice R. Kininmonth^*, Moritz Herle, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow, Helen Croker, Abigail Pickard, Katie Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett, Clare Llewellyn

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Parental feeding practices are a key modifiable component of children's food environments. Evidence suggests that certain feeding practices may differentially influence children's eating behaviour or weight, depending on the child's temperament (e.g. emotionality). Building on this work, we tested the hypothesis that feeding practices during toddlerhood influence children's developing eating behaviours differently, depending on their appetite avidity (which is characterised by a larger appetite and greater interest in food). Data were from Gemini, a population-based cohort of British twin children born in 2007. Parental feeding practices were assessed at 15/16-months, and child appetite at 15/16-months and 5-years, using validated psychometric measures (n = 1858 children). Complex samples general linear models examined prospective associations between PFPs at 15/16-months and child appetitive traits at 5-years, adjusting for clustering of twins within families and for the corresponding child appetitive trait at 15/16-months, difference in age between timepoints, child sex, gestational age, and socioeconomic status. Moderation analyses revealed that pressuring a child to eat led to greater increases in emotional overeating from 15/16-months to 5-years, only for children with high (1 SD above the mean: B = 0.13; SE± = 0.03,p < 0.001) or moderate emotional overeating (mean: B = 0.07 ± 0.03,p < 0.001) in toddlerhood. Greater covert restriction predicted greater reductions in emotional overeating and food responsiveness from 15/16-months to 5-years, only for children with high emotional overeating (1 SD above the mean: B = −0.06 ± 0.03,p = 0.03) and low food responsiveness (1 SD below the mean: B = −0.06 ± 0.03,p = 0.04) in toddlerhood. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that children with a more avid appetite in toddlerhood are differentially affected by parental feeding practices; caregivers of toddlers may therefore benefit from feeding advice that is tailored to their child's unique appetite.

Original language	English
Article number	106541
Number of pages	8
Journal	Appetite
Volume	185
Early online date	21 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106541
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

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Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Funding Information: This work was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research grant (ES/V014153/1). The funding organisation had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of data, and preparation, review or approval of the manuscript. We thank the Gemini families who are participated in the study.

Keywords

Child, Preschool
Humans
Child
Adolescent
Appetite
Child Behavior/psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Feeding Behavior/psychology
Parents
Hyperphagia/psychology
Parenting/psychology

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Kininmonth, A. R., Herle, M., Haycraft, E., Farrow, C., Croker, H., Pickard, A., Edwards, K., Blissett, J., & Llewellyn, C. (2023). Prospective associations between parental feeding practices used in toddlerhood and preschool children's appetite vary according to appetite avidity in toddlerhood. Appetite, 185, Article 106541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106541

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