Self-Regulation Among Parent Dyads as a Facilitator of Effective Parenting for Early Childhood Obesity Prevention

摘要 改变父母的行为是预防和治疗肥胖的最有效机制之一， 年幼的孩子。然而，许多早期儿童肥胖预防和治疗干预措施， 目标父级行为不成功。自我调节能力，或者说控制情绪的能力， 认知和行为，是行为改变的基本作用机制， 维护和坚持。在此证据的激励下，父母补助金R 01 HL 150848（母亲补助金） 自我调节和儿童早期肥胖（又名，SPROUT研究）），旨在阐明如何 母亲的自我调节支持或抑制参与养育行为， 孩子的健康体重作为对NOT-OD-22-140的回应，本补充文件将允许增加 对母亲的共同父母的自我调节的评估SPROUT研究。这一新的补充 数据，沿着父项目的现有数据，将用于分析，以实现以下目标 具体目标：目标1。特征自我调节之间的父母二人组，目的2。检查并发 父母的自我调节，母亲的体重相关的养育行为， 和家庭的体重相关的家庭环境，以及目标3。探索如何养育二人组的自我- 调节预测母亲与体重相关的养育行为和家庭与体重相关的 家庭环境随着时间的推移。这些目标将阐明如何自我调节在父母的二元， 不仅仅是母亲的自我调节，促进或阻碍了母亲使用推荐体重， 相关的养育行为和促进健康的家庭环境的发展。理解 父母二人组的自我调节如何影响父母行为和家庭环境 将提供新的，关键的洞察价值和针对自我调节的特异性， 提高儿童早期肥胖防治干预效果的作用机制 有效性此外，作为少数几项研究之一， 配偶/浪漫伴侣/养育子女的二元关系，而不是仅仅在个人之间，所获得的知识 跨诊断的影响，并有助于OBSSR的优先事项，促进累积，综合， 以及协同的行为和社会科学，这些科学可以在各种条件下进行优化和转化。

ABSTRACT Changing parent behavior is one of the most potent mechanisms to prevent and treat obesity among young children. However, many early childhood obesity prevention and treatment interventions that target parent behavior have been unsuccessful. Self-regulation, or one’s ability to control emotions, cognitions, and behavior, is a fundamental mechanism of action underlying behavior change, maintenance, and adherence. Motivated by this evidence, the parent grant, R01HL150848 (Maternal Self-Regulation and Early Childhood Obesity (aka, the SPROUT study)), aims to elucidate how mothers’ self-regulation supports or inhibits engagement in parenting behaviors that promote young children’s healthy weight. In response to NOT-OD-22-140, this supplement will allow for the addition of an assessment of mothers’ co-parents’ self-regulation to the SPROUT study. This new complementary data, along with the parent projects’ existing data, will be used in analyses to achieve the following specific aims: Aim 1. Characterize self-regulation among parenting dyads, Aim 2. Examine concurrent associations between parenting dyads’ self-regulation, mothers’ weight-related parenting behaviors, and families’ weight-related home environments, and Aim 3. Explore how parenting dyads’ self- regulation predicts changes in mothers’ weight-related parenting behaviors and families’ weight-related home environments over time. These aims will illuminate how self-regulation within parenting dyads, not just mothers’ self-regulation alone, facilitates or impedes mothers’ use of recommended weight- related parenting behaviors and development of health-promoting home environments. Understanding how self-regulation among parenting dyads may influence parent behavior and the home environment will provide novel, critical insight into the value and specificity of targeting self-regulation as a mechanism of action to improve early childhood obesity prevention and treatment intervention effectiveness. Further, by being one of the few studies to examine self-regulation within spousal/romantic partner/parenting dyads, versus only among individuals, the knowledge gained has transdiagnostic implications and contributes to OBSSR’s priority of facilitating cumulative, integrated, and synergistic behavioral and social sciences that can be optimized and translated across conditions.