Associations between parenting styles and children’s FV intake.

What is it about?

The aim of the present study was to explore relationships between parenting style and fruit and vegetable intake in an Australian context using a large representative sample of Australian children.

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Why is it important?

This study extends and updates the literature concerned with the determinants of children’s fruit and vegetable intake, on a number of new levels including parental irritability and parental warmth and control over children’s behaviors. This study also extends the previous cross-sectional findings to include cross-lagged associations between parenting styles and children’s fruits and vegetables intake.