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Temperament and Food Neophobia in Children and their Mothers
- Source :
- Appetite. 28:239-254
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1997.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Male
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Shyness
Developmental psychology
Food Preferences
Sex Factors
Emotionality
Avoidance Learning
medicine
Humans
Personality
Child
General Psychology
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Preschool child
Family Characteristics
Nutrition and Dietetics
School age child
Age differences
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Neophobia
Age Factors
medicine.disease
Phobic Disorders
Child, Preschool
Exploratory Behavior
Female
Temperament
Psychology
Subjects
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