Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Relationships between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits: The moderating role of infant temperament
Originally published 2023-02-06 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1115274 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
What does my baby do to show interest in another bite or readiness to stop?
This article examines how parental responsiveness to feeding cues relates to infant appetite and temperament. The family decision is how caregivers can preserve an active role for the child within developmentally suitable feeding routines.
Who was studied?
Parents reporting feeding practices and the appetite and temperament of infants aged six to twelve months.
Age / stage: Ages 6–12 months
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how parental responsiveness to feeding cues relates to infant appetite and temperament?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is parents reporting feeding practices and the appetite and temperament of infants aged six to twelve months.
Keep the limits in view
The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.
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Yan Liu; Yan Kong; Zhihui Li; Guanghua Zhang; Lin Wang; Guiling Yu (2023). Relationships between parental responsive feeding and infant appetitive traits: The moderating role of infant temperament Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1115274
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