Due to increasingly high rates of child overweight and obesity, it is important to identify risk
and protective factors that may inform more effective prevention and intervention. The …

Background Weight outcomes have been associated with child temperament, defined as
individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation. The current systematic review aims to …

Background Individual differences in eating behaviors among young children are well-
established, but the extent to which behaviors aggregate within individuals to form distinct …

Individual differences in eating behaviors have been associated with obesity among young
children. Food responsiveness tends to be positively associated with childhood obesity …

Objectives Greater weight gain in infancy is a risk factor for childhood obesity. The present
study examined the interaction between infant temperament and parent use of food to …

Background Individual differences in temperament are believed to influence the
development of children's eating behavior. This hypothesis has predominantly been tested …

Although evidence exists of the association between children's temperament and weight,
only few studies have examined how temperament is associated with actual food …

Background: Parental educational attainment is shown to be protective against health
problems; the Minorities' Diminished Returns theory, however, posits that these protective …

Appetitive traits that contribute to appetite self-regulation have been shown to relate to non-
food-related regulation in general domains of child development. Latent profile analysis …

Temperament, defined as individual differences in reactivity and regulation, has important
implications for the development of childhood obesity. Indeed, numerous studies have …