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Temperament and Food Neophobia in Children and their Mothers

Authors :
E. Ruth Loewen
Patricia Pliner
Source :
Appetite. 28:239-254
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 1997.

Abstract

We obtained measures of behavioral neophobia, rated neophobia, temperament, and liking for novel and familiar foods for 81 pairs of siblings (ranging in age from 5–11 yearsand their mothers. The children's data revealed a decrease with age in behavioral but not rated neophobia, and there were positive correlations between both measures of neophobia and the temperament dimensions of emotionality, shyness, and negative reactions to foods. In addition, liking for good-tasting novel foods was negatively related to shyness and to negative reactions to foods. For mothers, both measures of neophobia were related to negative reactions to foods and unrelated to any other temperament dimension. The data revealed little evidence of family resemblance (mother-child or sibling-siblingin food neophobia.

Details

ISSN :
01956663
Volume :
28
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Appetite
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6a133db6b0c8804d13716525698337e0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1006/appe.1996.0078