关键词: 父母, 喂养行为, 挑食, 儿童气质, 调节作用

Abstract: Objective To explore the relationships between parental feeding practices and children's picky eating,and to test the moderating effects of children's temperament between them. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a convenient sample of 442 parents with their preschool children aged 3—6 years in Pudong New District of Shanghai in June 2020. The questionnaire consisted of the Chinese Preschoolers' Caregivers' Feeding Behavior Scale,Child Feeding Questionnaire,Chinese Preschoolers' Eating Behavior Questionnaire and Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. Results Parental encouragement of healthy eating was negatively associated with children's picky eating(β=-0.270,P＜0.001),and parental use food as a reward was positively associated with children's picky eating(β=0.210,P＜0.001). Children's anger/frustration was found to significantly moderate the relationship between parental encouragement of healthy eating and children's picky eating(β=0.125,t=2.207,P＜0.05),as well as the relationship between using food as a reward and children's picky eating(β=0.141,t=3.465,P＜0.001). The moderating effect of children's inhibitory control was not statistically significant. Conclusions The relationships between parental feeding practices(encouragement of healthy eating and using food as a reward) and children's picky eating are moderated by children's negative emotion(anger/frustration). Thus,parents should take children's negative emotion into consideration and adopt suitable feeding practices,such as encouragement of healthy eating instead of using food as a reward,so as to reduce the likelihood of children's picky eating.

Key words: parents, feeding practices, picky eating, children's temperament, moderating effect