Parents’ food choice motives and their associations with children’s food preferences

Public Health Nutrition

Djin G Liem¹  Catherine G Russell¹  Anthony Worsley¹ 

关键词: Food choice;    Food preferences;    Children;    Parents;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S1368980014001128

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

AbstractObjectiveThe objective was to investigate parents’ motives for selecting foods for their children and the associations between these motives and children’s food preferences.DesignCross-sectional survey. A modified version of the Food Choice Questionnaire was used to assess parents’ food choice motives. Parents also reported children’s liking/disliking of 176 food and beverage items on 5-point Likert scales. Patterns of food choice motives were examined with exploratory principal component analysis. Associations between motives and children’s food preferences were assessed with linear regression while one-way and two-way ANOVA were used to test for sociodemographic differences.SettingTwo Australian cities.SubjectsParents (n 371) of 2–5-year-old children.ResultsHealth, nutrition and taste were key motivators for parents, whereas price, political concerns and advertising were among the motives considered least important. The more parents’ food choice for their children was driven by what their children wanted, the less children liked vegetables (β =−0·27, P

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