Are adolescent diet quality and emotional eating predicted by history of maternal caregiving quality and concurrent inhibitory control

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ID11364153
AuthorsYvonne Willemsen (0000-0002-8733-4219, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Stefania Vacaru, Stefania V Vacaru (0000-0001-6897-2963, Radboud University Nijmegen), Roseriet Beijers (0000-0002-4033-6620, Radboud University Nijmegen), Carolina de Weerth (0000-0002-0921-1811, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Year2023
Volume190
Pages107020
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAppetite (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0195-6663 • E-ISSN: 1095-8304
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.appet.2023.107020
PMID37678584
OpenAlexW4386439511
LanguageEN
References cited118

The risk for unhealthy eating behaviour, including poor diet quality and emotional eating, is heightened in adolescence and could result in profound and long-lasting psychological and physical implications. Caregiving quality and adolescents' regulatory skills, such as inhibitory control, may play an essential role in the development of adolescent eating behaviour. This preregistered study investigated whether maternal caregiving throughout the first 14 years of life predicts adolescent diet quality and emotional eating and whether potential associations are mediated by adolescents' inhibitory control. In this low-risk community cohort, maternal caregiving quality was observed at child ages five weeks, 12 months, 2.5, 10, and 14 years. At age 14, diet quality and emotional eating were assessed through self-report. Adolescent inhibitory control was assessed with three behavioural tasks and a maternal report. Mediation analyses were performed with structural equation modelling in R. No evidence was found for links between maternal caregiving quality and adolescent diet quality and emotional eating. Higher levels of adolescent inhibitory control predicted better adolescent diet quality. Longitudinal and experimental studies are needed to investigate directionality, and replication studies are needed in more representative samples (e.g. including high-risk families). Such studies will shed further light on potential links between the history of caregiving behaviour and adolescent regulatory and eating behaviour

Cognition · Developmental psychology · Eating behavior · Emotional eating · Inhibitory control · Mediation · Obesity · Psychiatry · Young adult · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Internal Medicine

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