Delay of Gratification Predicts Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Preschool-Aged Children
| dc.contributor.author | Giuliani, Nicole R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kelly, Nichole R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-20T00:13:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-20T00:13:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-03-19 | |
| dc.description | 11 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Poor ability to regulate one's own food intake based on hunger cues may encourage children to eat beyond satiety, leading to increased risk of diet-related diseases. Self-regulation has multiple forms, yet no one has directly measured the degree to which different domains of self-regulation predict overeating in young children. The present study investigated how three domains of self-regulation (i.e., appetitive self-regulation, inhibitory control, and attentional control) predicted eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) in a community sample of 47 preschool-aged children (M age = 4.93, SD = 0.86). Appetitive self-regulation, as measured using a delay of gratification task, was significantly and negatively associated with EAH 1 year later (p < 0.5). Measures of inhibitory and attentional control did not significantly predict EAH. These results suggest that food-related self-regulation may be a better predictor of overeating behaviors than general measures of self-regulation. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study was funded by a New Investigator Grant from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to NG. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Giuliani NR and Kelly NR (2021) Delay of Gratification Predicts Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Preschool-Aged Children. Front. Psychol. 12:650046. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650046 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650046 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27712 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | self-regulation | en_US |
| dc.subject | eating in the absence of hunger | en_US |
| dc.subject | preschool | en_US |
| dc.subject | taste test | en_US |
| dc.subject | inhibitory control | en_US |
| dc.subject | delay of gratification | en_US |
| dc.title | Delay of Gratification Predicts Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Preschool-Aged Children | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |