Parents' food choice motives and their associations with children's food preferences

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1018-1027

  Russell, Catherine G ^a   Worsley, Anthony ^b   Liem, Djin G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Food choice; Food preferences; Parents

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PARENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; TASTE;

CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PARENTING; PARENTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASTE; VICTORIA;

EID: 84924632193     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014001128     Document Type: Article

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