Title of article :
Parenting Style, Parental Feeding Practices and Children’s Nutritional
Status in Authoritative Parenting Style Model: A Structural Equation
Modeling
Author/Authors :
Mozaffari-Khosravi Hassan نويسنده Department of Nutrition, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , Morowatisharifabad Mohammad Ali نويسنده Department of Health, Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences , Fallahzade Mohammad Hossein نويسنده Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Fallahzade Mohammad Hossein , Salehi-Abargouei Amin نويسنده Food Security Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Khankolabi Mehdi نويسنده Department of Health Education and Promotion, Shahid
Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, IR
Iran , Gerami Mohammad Hassan نويسنده Department of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad
University, Yazd, IR Iran
Abstract :
Background The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in
children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a
relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and
children’s nutritional status. Objectives This study aimed to apply
Authoritative Parenting style Model in children’s nutritional status.
Methods This research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000
parents selected by random cluster sampling. Parents who had primary
school children aged 7 - 8 years in Bojnord, Iran, completed
questionnaires related to the constructs of the model in 2016.
Structural Equation Model Model (SEM) analysis was used to test the fit
of the model. CMIN/DF, GFI, IFI, CFI, PGFI, PNFI, and RMSEA indices were
employed to check the goodness-of-fit. Results Correctly completed
questionnaires were collected from 294 dyads of parents. The mean age
was 36.26 years (SD = ±5.38) in fathers and 32.96 years (SD = ±4.88) in
mothers. 232 mothers (80.5 %) were housewives and only 99 of them
(34.4%) had university education. Most fathers were employee (115, 40%)
or self-employed (111, 38.5%) and 120 of them (41.7%) had university
education. The values of goodness-of-fit were obtained for CMIN/DF =
4.6, GFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.92, PGFI = 0.68, PNFI = 0.77, and
RMSEA = 0.07. Nutritional knowledge and attitude directly affected
authoritative parenting style (β = 0.21, P < 0.001) and parental
feeding practices (β = 0.33, P < 0.001) and indirectly affected
children’s nutritional status (β = - 0.01). The authoritative parenting
style construct had a direct effect on feeding practices of parents (β =
0.54, P < 0.001) and an indirect effect on children’s nutritional
status (β = - 0.01). The feeding practices of parents construct also
affected the children’s nutritional status directly (β = - 0.02, P
< 0.05). Conclusions This study indicated that the use of this
model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive
outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this
regard.
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
