The relationship of parenting style and eating behavior in preschool children

BMC Psychology

Table 3 Regression coefficients of the relationships of negative parenting styles (predictors, in bold type) on the child’s eating behavior

Effect	Estimate	SE	z-value¹	p-value	Standardized estimate
Inconsistent parenting
Food responsiveness	0.149	0.055	2.692	0.007	0.165**
Emotional overeating	0.258	0.064	4.058	0.000	0.250***
Enjoyment of food	0.178	0.064	2.789	0.005	0.166**
Satiety responsiveness	0.253	0.068	3.742	0.000	0.250***
Slowness in eating	0.108	0.061	1.775	0.076	0.108
Emotional undereating	0.222	0.067	3.334	0.001	0.185**
Food fussiness	0.179	0.063	2.837	0.005	0.152**
Corporal punishmen
Food responsiveness	0.262	0.075	3.489	0.000	0.246***
Emotional overeating	0.273	0.094	2.919	0.004	0.224**
Enjoyment of food	−0.019	0.085	−0.228	0.820	−0.015
Satiety responsiveness	−0.194	0.087	−2.238	0.025	−0.163*
Slowness in eating	0.041	0.082	0.504	0.614	0.035
Emotional undereating	−0.009	0.095	−0.092	0.927	−0.006
Food fussiness	−0.048	0.083	−0.581	0.561	−0.035
Powerful implementation
Food responsiveness	0.146	0.058	2.492	0.013	0.132*
Emotional overeating	0.022	0.074	0.291	0.771	0.017
Enjoyment of food	−0.183	0.070	−2.602	0.009	−0.141**
Satiety responsiveness	0.013	0.073	0.184	0.854	0.011
Slowness in eating	−0.061	0.068	−0.888	0.375	−0.050
Emotional undereating	0.050	0.088	0.575	0.566	0.034
Food fussiness	−0.128	0.073	−1.737	0.082	−0.089
Low monitoring
Food responsiveness	0.119	0.066	1.182	0.070	0.138
Emotional overeating	0.207	0.076	2.725	0.006	0.210**
Enjoyment of food	0.114	0.068	1.669	0.095	0.111
Satiety responsiveness	0.135	0.072	1.886	0.059	0.139
Slowness in eating	0.145	0.066	2.196	0.028	0.150*
Emotional undereating	0.084	0.079	1.058	0.290	0.072
Food fussiness	0.063	0.066	0.951	0.341	0.056

Cohen's classification for effect sizes are 0.1 to be small, 0.3 to be medium, and 0.5 to be large.
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.
¹Statistic for the test of regression coefficients against 0

ISSN: 2050-7283