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- Title
Bidirectional Associations between Restrained Eating and Body Mass Index in Middle Childhood.
- Authors
Lawless, Meg; Shriver, Lenka H.; Hubbs-Tait, Laura; Topham, Glade L.; Swindle, Taren; Harrist, Amanda W.; Verduci, Elvira
- Abstract
The nature of the association between dietary restraint and weight has been examined in adult samples, but much less is known about this relationship among children. The current study examined the transactional associations among restrained eating behavior and weight among boys and girls during middle childhood. Data for this study came from 263 children participating in the Families and Schools for Health Project (FiSH), a longitudinal study of the psychosocial correlates of childhood obesity. Participants were interviewed by trained researchers in their third- and fourth-grade year when they completed questionnaires and anthropometric assessments. Dietary restraint was assessed using the restrained eating subscale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ), and weight was assessed using Body Mass Index z-scores (BMIz). Bidirectional associations between variables were examined using cross-lagged models controlling for children's sex, ethnicity, and weight in first grade. Results indicated that weight in grade 3 was related to greater dietary restraint in grade 4 (B = 0.20, p = 0.001), but dietary restraint in grade 3 was not associated with weight in grade 4 (B = 0.01, p = 0.64). Neither child sex nor race/ethnicity were associated with BMIz or dietary restraint at either time point. Findings from this study advance the existing limited understanding of eating behavior development among children and show that weight predicts increases in children's dietary restraint in middle childhood.
- Subjects
FOOD habits; BODY weight; CHILDHOOD obesity; ANTHROPOMETRY; INTERVIEWING; MATHEMATICAL variables; SEX distribution; EATING disorders in children; QUESTIONNAIRES; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; BODY mass index; ETHNIC groups; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software; LONGITUDINAL method; CHILDREN
- Publication
Nutrients, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 5, p1485
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu13051485