Food Choices of 4 to 6-Year-Old Overweight and Nonoverweight Children While Role-Playing as Adults

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 779-782

  Snoek, Harriëtte M ^a   Sessink, Nienke Y ^a   Engels, Rutger C M E ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Food choices; Overweight; Parenting; Restriction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROLE PLAYING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTHERS; OBESITY; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE PLAYING;

EID: 78650750537     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021639     Document Type: Article

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