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Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation?
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased, with the major implications for public health. However, the factors that contribute to obesity in children are still poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the role of parental reflective f...
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Asociacion Espanola de Psicologia Conductual
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2019.06.002 |
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author | Pazzagli, Chiara Germani, Alessandro Buratta, Livia Luyten, Patrick Mazzeschi, Claudia |
author_facet | Pazzagli, Chiara Germani, Alessandro Buratta, Livia Luyten, Patrick Mazzeschi, Claudia |
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description | BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased, with the major implications for public health. However, the factors that contribute to obesity in children are still poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the role of parental reflective functioning (PRF) in childhood obesity. METHOD: In a cross-sectional design, 120 sets of parents of 60 children (n = 30 with obesity, age range 6–11) were recruited by local paediatricians. Parents completed the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire. Children's and parents’ weight (assessed by BMI), as well as their socio-economic status (SES), were assessed to explore the contribution of PRF in the prediction of children's weight, controlling for parents’ weight and SES. RESULTS: t-test showed significant differences with medium effect sizes in BMI, SES and PRF between parents of children with and without obesity. The best model resulted from hierarchical multiple regression analyses and showed that mothers’ PRF predicted children's BMI above and beyond the prediction by parents’ BMI and SES. CONCLUSIONS: Low maternal PRF could be an important target for intervention strategies, highlighting the need to consider parental responses to children's emotions in the treatment of childhood obesity, particularly in parents with low SES and high BMI. |
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spelling | pubmed-67327692019-09-12 Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? Pazzagli, Chiara Germani, Alessandro Buratta, Livia Luyten, Patrick Mazzeschi, Claudia Int J Clin Health Psychol Original article BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: In recent decades, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased, with the major implications for public health. However, the factors that contribute to obesity in children are still poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the role of parental reflective functioning (PRF) in childhood obesity. METHOD: In a cross-sectional design, 120 sets of parents of 60 children (n = 30 with obesity, age range 6–11) were recruited by local paediatricians. Parents completed the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire. Children's and parents’ weight (assessed by BMI), as well as their socio-economic status (SES), were assessed to explore the contribution of PRF in the prediction of children's weight, controlling for parents’ weight and SES. RESULTS: t-test showed significant differences with medium effect sizes in BMI, SES and PRF between parents of children with and without obesity. The best model resulted from hierarchical multiple regression analyses and showed that mothers’ PRF predicted children's BMI above and beyond the prediction by parents’ BMI and SES. CONCLUSIONS: Low maternal PRF could be an important target for intervention strategies, highlighting the need to consider parental responses to children's emotions in the treatment of childhood obesity, particularly in parents with low SES and high BMI. Asociacion Espanola de Psicologia Conductual 2019-09 2019-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6732769/ /pubmed/31516499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2019.06.002 Text en © 2019 Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original article Pazzagli, Chiara Germani, Alessandro Buratta, Livia Luyten, Patrick Mazzeschi, Claudia Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title | Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title_full | Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title_fullStr | Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title_short | Childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: Is there a relation? |
title_sort | childhood obesity and parental reflective functioning: is there a relation? |
topic | Original article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2019.06.002 |
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