The role of parenting styles on a child’s weight status will be explored. 20 families (10 families of overweight/obese children and 10 normal weight status) will be used to gage the effects of parenting on a child’s weight. Participants will be asked to participate in video recording of a family meal time and will be evaluated on the type of parenting style demonstrated throughout dinner. Several scales including the General Parental Scale and Family Mealtime Interaction Coding System will be used to see if parental control and authoritarian style parenting is demonstrated throughout mealtimes. It is predicted that a more restrictive parenting style used during mealtimes will lead to an increase in the weight status of the children. …show more content…
In most cases the family is seen as the main support system for a child, and therefore can have detrimental effects on their health (Halliday, Palma, Mellor, Green, & Renzaho 2014). For a young child, this can be especially harmful they are often dependent upon the parent to set an example of feeding habits and maintaining a weight status.
Literature Review Currently the view of overweight children is mainly contributed to hereditary influences, but research has shown this may not necessarily be the case. There seems to be a complex, relationship between various variables that can influence the child’s weight status. One of these influences being currently studied in depth is the concept of parenting styles being one of the causes of the fluctuation of weight status in children. The family context seems to mainly influence is energy intake. The family context comprised of two sections. This includes parental support comprising of affective warmth and acceptance, the other half includes parental control. Parental control is referred to as “attempts to monitor the child’s eating by restricting the child from eating certain foods or pressuring the child to eat other foods” (Braet, Moens, & Soetens 2007). Therefore the type of parenting style a parent utilizes has certain levels of parental control and warmth determining how they
In the past three decades, rates of childhood obesity have increased precipitously. Between the years and 1980 and 2000, the prevalence of obesity has increased from 6.5% to 19.6% among 6 to 11 year old children and 5.0% to 18.1% among 12 to 19 year old adolescents x(National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2010). This condition is accompanied by many physical and psychological consequences for these children. There are two common postions in the debate about the causes of this condition. One belief of the cause of childhood obesity is that it is a question of “personal responsibility” or in the case of children, of “parental responsibility.” That is, increasing rates of obesity are due to
Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. More than one third of children are overweight. This figure is increasing rapidly. This epidemic puts children at risk for various health problems such as type two diabetes and heart problems. Although they are several risk factors for obesity, parents play a significant role in this issue. This paper will look into how parents are influential to their children, how they contribute to this problem and how they may help fight the fight against obesity. Obesity is a very serious problem and there are solutions that parents can apply to help their children lead a healthy lifestyle. Obesity does not only affect a person physically, but mentally and psychologically as well.
The question that has been debated for years is who is responsible for the children’s weight. In the articles that where researched during this paper the parents were responsible. The reason that they were responsible was because the decisions that parent make about their family and the lifestyle that they live affects their child’s health and it can also affect their health in the future. When you move out of your parent’s house you tend to mimic things that they did such as if they always bought Tide as their laundry soap when you got out on your own you probably bought Tide. Now when you were in a pinch one time you may have tried another brand because it was cheaper but for the most part you revert back to what you know. As a parent you should want your children to be as healthy as they can be a lot of parents that where talked to while researching the subject of childhood obesity seemed to just not have the knowledge about obesity.
Parents influence children 's eating behaviors because they choose food choices for their families, serve as models, and reinforce eating patterns. Parenting practices are also influenced by the child’s traits like, age, gender, weight status, and eating behavior. It is influenced by the age because as the child gets older, their image of themselves change. Parents and children affect and react to each others eating behavior. Although the parent selects food choices for there family, the FITS study suggests that “bigger is better” when it comes to food. The portion size and energy density
The Physiological Theory of Obesity draws a distinctive link between overweight parents, and the possibility of their children being overweight. It has been recorded that if one parent is obsess, then the child of that parent has a forty percent chance of being obese. If both parents are obese, the change of the child being obese jumps to 80 percent. The clear connection between a parents’ weight and a child’s chance of becoming overweight is alarming. While one cannot infer causation from correlation, the statistics may point to the
In addition to poor food selection in low-income neighborhoods, prevalence of childhood obesity is also significantly affected by family education. Several works of literature support the idea of the critical role of parents or caregivers in determining children's physical health and body mass index. The role of parenting and caregivers is crucial for young children because parents directly determine the child’s physical and social environment, and indirectly influence behaviors, habits, and attitudes through socialization processes; this means that overweight is a function of environment.10
Parents are one of the biggest role models to their children. If parents don't buy healthy food their children are going to have unhealthy diets from eating high-calorie food. How much the parents work also affects the children according to Patricia Anderson. Anderson states, “an increase in dual-career or single-parent working families, may also have increased demand for food away from home” (Anderson par. ). When parents work they don’t have time to prepare dinner. Instead, they go to fast food for a quick and easy meal for their family, but the meal is not healthy. The parents are contributing to their children's bad eating habits. Another factor can be genes or ethnicity, some children are at a higher risk for being obese. According to Michael J Wieting, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, genes and ethnicity can play a role in childhood obesity. Children who are of Native American, African American and Mexican descent are more likely to be overweight than youth who are white or of Asian descent (Wieting par. 9). Certain ethnic groups are at a higher risk due to the foods associated with the culture and other hereditary genes. Childhood obesity comes with multiple medical
Parents, for various socioeconomic reasons, work excessively long hours, leaving little time to prepare home-cooked meals and supervise non-sedentary activities (Ebbeling 2002). Another crucial thing that has changed from family customs is the time families eat their dinner. It used to be in the evening around six which still was enough time for kids to go outside and play after and burn off what they ate, now families eat later around 8 or 9 because of how active their lives are and that is when it is too dark for kids to play outside so after they eat there meal which a lot of the time now isn’t healthy they have no time to burn it off before bed. Late night eating adds to childhood obesity in the fact that there is not adequate time and they do not do ample activities before bed to burn off calories and fat and when they go to bed that all sinks into them and in becomes a lot accessible for them to gain fat. Children are ten times more inclined to be obese if both parents are obese. It isn’t always the family habits causing the children to be obese, but they can have a direct impact on the
Ek, et al., (2016) studied children eating behaviors and parental feeding practices. The researchers believed that parent feeding knowledge is important for a child to prevent obesity. The study was done to examine children’s eating behavior, and parent feeding practices. The study was done by sending two different questioners to 25 schools/preschools children and parents. The first questioner was a child eating behavior questionnaire (CEBQ) was which studied children’s eating behavior. A
If there are siblings and one of them becomes obese, there is a chance of 40% of the other one becoming obese. In married couples, if one of them gets obese, there is a 37% chance of the other spouse becoming obese. If one or both parents are obese, the possibility of their child to be obese is greater. It was shown that what families do, who they spend their time with, what they eat and how their family structure is generally, affects the child’s diet. A child is to learn from their parents, if their parents are obese, that’s what they’ll probably
This study was designed to evaluate the association between parents and childhood obesity. There were two causes that the authors took into consideration when introducing this study. Those causes were the etiologies of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for childhood obesity. As the literature states, modifiable causes include lack of physical activity, frequent use of the computer and watching television, low family income, parents who don’t work, high consumption of high calorie foods, and excessive snacking. Whereas, the non-modifiable risk factors are genetics, with a high risk of obesity found in children of obese and overweight parents. Also within this study, the authors researched to find an association between childhood
Obesity is a multi-factorial health issue that is continuing to increase in prevalence globally. Specifically, 17% of children worldwide are impacted by obesity, with an increase of obesity increasing with age (CDC). Some of the various factors leading to childhood obesity are: genetic predisposition, learned eating behaviors in infancy, eating environment and associations, restriction or access to various foods, and large food portions, particularly for high energy density foods (1,2,3). All of these factors have a commonality—parental influence. From before birth, parents create an atmosphere around eating, and those initial interactions and cues have a direct impact on the child’s future health (1,2,3,4). Parents are primarily responsible
Evaluation for a credible source for an action plan on obesity on our youth. The article that I’m using as a reference to childhood obesity “Children’s eating attitudes and behavior: A study of the modeling and control theories of parental influence.” A study of the modeling and control theories of parental influence speaks about an experiment dealing with the kids and how the parent uses food as a source of reward. Therefore, 112 parents/child pairs were given a questionnaire that outlined and describe the eating motivations, meal intake, and body dissatisfaction for each child. However, additional items relating to monitoring their kid's food intake as controlling behavior. Unfortunately, it showed many conclusions from how engaged parents
Although the idea behind socioeconomic status and our environment being of influence for a child's obesity, I would also argue that children need to be controlled somehow, and what better way than with parenting. We are not born knowing what a burger tastes like, our palate is shaped and constructed from what we are early introduced to for both right or wrong. However, we all know that in this hectic lifestyle that we currently live in makes it almost impossible for a parent to have complete control of a child and their decisions when they are not around their parents. According to an article published on Time magazine, when researching and understanding that the term obesity should be considered as means of emotional or physical health in
“Parental behavioral patterns concerning shopping, cooking, eating and exercise have an important influence on a child’s energy, balance and ultimately their weight” said diet specialist, Anne Collins (“Childhood Obesity Facts”). Childhood obesity has more than tripled since the 1980’s (“Childhood Obesity Facts”). Childhood obesity often leads to obesity as an adult which can put a person at greater risks dealing with the heart, diabetes, and many other obese related diseases. People want to blame the schools and today’s technology for childhood obesity, in reality, the responsibility lies in the hands of their parents.