Fathers’ use of social media for social comparison is associated with their food parenting practices

• DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107201
• Publication Date: 2024-01-06T16:23:14Z
• Authors: Amina Saher; Lisa Tang; Sabrina Douglas; Raphaëlle Jacob; Kathryn Walton; Adam Sadowski; David W.L. Ma; Jess Haines
• Keywords: Parenting; Child, Preschool; Humans; Mothers; Female; Child; Social Media; Meals; Social Comparison

Over 85% of parents use social media; however, limited research has investigated the associations between parental media and food parenting practices. The objectives this study were to: 1) describe how mothers fathers focused on topics related to child feeding family meals; 2) examine meals mothers' fathers' Data obtained from 179 116 children aged 3–8 years enrolled in a family-based obesity prevention intervention. We used descriptive statistics parents' relation linear regressions with generalized estimating equations explore Models stratified by parent gender adjusted for household income, ethnicity, age, sex, intervention status. A higher percent than reported using seek information (64.8% mothers; 25.0% fathers) share compare choices (41.9% 19.8% fathers). While was not associated practices mothers, negative practices, i.e., greater emotional regulation (β = 0.37, p 0.02) reward 0.34, 0.02). Study results can inform strategies promote healthy among young children.