Influence of Parenting on Eating Behaviors

Reflecting again on your own development, did you have a mom who regularly commented on how you needed to eat more, or did your parent comment on how you really should be watching your weight? Historically, keepers of the kitchen and grocery shoppers—mothers anecdotally—have a lot of influence on what (and how much) their children eat. The article for Unit II examines whether mothers attempt to exert the same kind of influence over male versus female children.

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Schreiber, A. C., Kesztyüs, D., Wirt, T., Erkelenz, N., Kobel, S., & Steinacker, J. M. (2014). Why do mothers encourage their children to control their weight: Cross-sectional study of possible contributing factors? BMC Public Health, 14(450), 1-7.

For this assignment, you will need to summarize the article, discuss the strengths or limitations you observe in the methodology, and answer the following questions:

The article suggests differential control for males versus females. What might be some of the long-term physical consequences for these differences in parental influence?

How might maternal influence on weight control impact female children who become mothers themselves and will be responsible for prenatal nutrition?

This research was conducted in Europe. Using your experiential knowledge, information from the article, and your assigned textbook readings from this course so far, would you expect similar findings if the research were conducted in the United States? Why, or why not?

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