A Causal Relationship Model of Parents’ Emotional Eating and Preschool Children’s Emotional Eating Mediated by Self-Regulation
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This research was aimed to analyze and validate a causal relationship model of parents’ emotional eating and preschool children’s emotional eating mediated by self-regulation. The model consisted of four latent variables: parents’ emotional eating, emotion regulation feeding practices, children’s self-regulation, and preschool children’s emotional eating. The sample of 176 preschool children aged between 3-5 years old who born during B.E. 2553-2555 and have lived in Chonburi were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected by questionnaires. The descriptive statistics were used in data analysis. The structural equation model was investigated using LISREL program. The results indicated that the hypothetical model was consistent with empirical data. Goodness of fit statistics were: Chi-square test of goodness of fit=50.42, df=44, P=.23, GFI=.96, AGFI=.90, CFI=1.00, RMSEA=.02, RMR=.03, SRMR=.05. The variables in the hypothetical model accounted for 77 percent of the total variance of children’s emotional eating. Parents’ emotional eating had a positive indirect effect on the preschool children’s emotional eating as related to emotion regulation feeding practices. Emotion regulation feeding practices had a positive direct effect on the preschool children’s emotional eating. Moreover, interaction term between children’s self-regulation and emotion regulation feeding practices had a positive direct effect on the preschool children’s emotional eating.
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