Healthy eating beliefs and intentions of mothers and their adult children: an intergenerational transmission perspective

Sumodhee, Dayyanah and Payne, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-9801 (2016) Healthy eating beliefs and intentions of mothers and their adult children: an intergenerational transmission perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 21 (12) . pp. 2775-2787. ISSN 1359-1053 [Article] (doi:10.1177/1359105315586214)

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Abstract

This study examined possible intergenerational transmission of eating beliefs and intentions between 60 mothers and their adult children. Maternal restrictive feeding practices were correlated with mothers' own healthy eating attitudes and subjective norms and with their adult children's subjective norms. Mothers’ beliefs and intentions were correlated with their adult children’s. Adult children's intentions to eat healthily were predicted by their attitudes and PBC, and also by their mothers' intentions and PBC. Mothers’ own beliefs and intentions may be involved in shaping their children’s beliefs and intentions into adulthood but their child feeding practices may have less of an influence.

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