Mothers and meals. The effects of mothers' meal planning and shopping motivations on children's participation in family meals

William Alex McIntosh; Karen S. Kubena; Glen Tolle; Wesley R. Dean; Jie sheng Jan; Jenna Anding

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.09.016

Mothers and meals. The effects of mothers' meal planning and shopping motivations on children's participation in family meals

William Alex McIntosh
, Karen S. Kubena
, Glen Tolle
, Wesley R. Dean
, Jie sheng Jan
, Jenna Anding

General Education Center

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Abstract

Participation in family meals has been associated with benefits for health and social development of children. The objective of the study was to identify the impact of mothers' work of caring through planning regularly scheduled meals, shopping and cooking, on children's participation in family meals. Parents of children aged 9-11 or 13-15 years from 300 Houston families were surveyed about parents' work, meal planning for and scheduling of meals, motivations for food purchases, importance of family meals, and children's frequency of eating dinner with their families. The children were interviewed about the importance of eating family meals. Hypotheses were tested using path analysis to calculate indirect and total effects of variables on the outcome variable of frequency of children eating dinner with their family. Mothers' belief in the importance of family meals increased likelihood of children eating dinner with families by increasing likelihood that mothers planned dinner and that dinners were regularly scheduled. Mothers' perception of time pressures on meal preparation had a negative, indirect effect on the frequency of children's participation in family dinners by reducing mothers' meal planning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	623-628
Number of pages	6
Journal	Appetite
Volume	55
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2010.09.016
State	Published - Dec 2010

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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, May 29, 2009, State College, PA. Data presented in this paper were drawn from the project “Parental Time, Income, Role Strain, Coping, and Children's Diet and Nutrition” (43-3AEM-0-80075) funded through a grant from USDA-ERS-Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of USDA.

Keywords

Family meals
Family ritual
Meal planning
Mothers
Work of caring

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