General parenting styles and children's obesity risk: Changing focus
Publication year
2018Number of pages
4 p.
Source
Frontiers in Psychology, 9, (2018), article 2119ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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SW OZ BSI OGG
Journal title
Frontiers in Psychology
Volume
vol. 9
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Developmental PsychopathologyAbstract
Increasing attention has been given to direct associations of general parenting styles with children's obesity. General parenting styles (i.e., authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved) refer to the broad emotional context reflecting childrearing across situations and domains (Darling and Steinberg, 1993). Parenting styles focus less on what parents do (i.e., behavior-specific parenting practices) and more on how they do it in general (Power, 2013). In this commentary, we argue that general parenting styles should be conceptualized as a contextual factor that may moderate the influence of weight-related (e.g., food) parenting practices on behavior and weight outcomes among children, as opposed to having direct effects on those outcomes.
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