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The Effects of Parental Food Education on Children’s Food Literacy: The Mediating Role of Parent–Child Relationship and Learning Motivation

Originally published 2024-08-04 · Nutrients
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/nu16152564 ↗

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What part of preparing or choosing food would my child like to learn next?

This article examines how food education at home relates to children’s confidence and motivation to learn about food. The research links support at home to the confidence or motivation a young person brings to their own activities.

Who was studied?

Children aged nine to fourteen completing measures of food education, literacy and learning motivation.

Age / stage: Ages 9–14

Read with three questions

  1. What does the article establish about how food education at home relates to children’s confidence and motivation to learn about food?
  2. Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
  3. How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is children aged nine to fourteen completing measures of food education, literacy and learning motivation.

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The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.

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Xing Xu; Huizi Cai; Jieying Zhang; Tiansheng Xia (2024). The Effects of Parental Food Education on Children’s Food Literacy: The Mediating Role of Parent–Child Relationship and Learning Motivation Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16152564

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