Food neophobia and enjoyment of tactile play: Associations between preschool children and their parents
Food neophobia and enjoyment of tactile play: Associations between preschool children and their parents
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DOI：
10.1016/j.appet.2015.11.028
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
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影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Sahota, Sirnran
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作者：
Coulthard, Helen;Sahota, Sirnran
我们进行了一项横断面研究，以检验在儿童中观察到的触觉游戏的享受与新食物恐惧症之间的关系（Coulthard & Thakker, 2015）是否与他们父母的水平有关。126名参与者从英国西米德兰兹郡沃尔索尔地区的游戏小组中心招募；63名儿童（2-5岁；30名女孩和33名男孩）和63名随行父母（53名母亲和10名父亲）。孩子和他们的父母对触觉游戏任务的享受程度由父母和一名研究人员打分，父母为自己和孩子完成了对新食物恐惧症和触觉敏感性的问卷调查。在所有的测量中，父母和孩子的得分都有很强的关联；新食物恐惧症，触觉敏感，触觉游戏享受。与儿童食物恐惧症最密切相关的变量是父母恐惧症和触觉游戏的享受（父母和孩子）。这些发现表明，家族相似性不仅存在于食物恐惧症中，也存在于触觉感觉处理中，并且可能代表了新恐惧症的遗传途径。尽管这种关系的因果关系尚不清楚，但这些发现强化了触觉处理与新食物恐惧症有关的观点。(C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine whether the relationship between enjoyment of tactile play and food neophobia observed in children (Coulthard & Thakker, 2015) would be related to levels seen in their parents. One hundred and twenty six participants were recruited from playgroup centres in the Walsall area of the West Midlands, UK; 63 children (2-5 years; 30 girls and 33 boys) and 63 attendant parents (53 mothers and 10 fathers). Children and their parents' enjoyment of a tactile play task was rated by both the parent and a researcher, and questionnaire measures of food neophobia and tactile sensitivity were completed by the parent for both themselves and their children. Strong associations were found between parent and child scores across all the measures; food neophobia, tactile sensitivity and tactile play enjoyment. The variables most strongly related to child food neophobia were parental neophobia and enjoyment of tactile play (parent and child). These findings indicate that family resemblance exists not only for food neophobia, but for tactile sensory processing as well, and may represent a possible inherited route to neophobia. The findings strengthen the suggestion that tactile processing is associated with food neophobia although the causal nature of this relationship is still not known. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.