Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
The Longitudinal Influence of Parent–Grandparent Coparenting Relationships on Preschoolers’ Eating Behaviors in Chinese Urban Families: The Mediating Roles of Caregivers’ Feeding Behaviors
Originally published 2025-09-15 · Nutrients
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/nu17182961 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
How can parents and grandparents examine whether their approaches to meals are aligned?
This study recognizes grandparents as part of the caregiving team. It examines how agreement, support, and undermining relate to feeding practices and children’s eating behavior.
Who was studied?
343 urban Chinese families in which parents and grandparents shared caregiving.
Age / stage: Preschool children
Read with three questions
- How were parent–grandparent agreement, support, and undermining measured?
- What associations involved encouragement of healthy eating and satiety responsiveness?
- Why should the observational feeding findings not become a universal meal-time prescription?
Keep the limits in view
An urban Shanghai sample and caregiver reports limit generalization. Cross-lagged mediation is not a randomized causal test, and the reported directions of eating-behavior associations require careful interpretation.
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Zhihui Zhao; Fangge Qu; Ruxing Wu; Xiaoxue Wei; Xinyi Song; Chenjun Wu; Jian Wang; Wenzhe Hua; Daqiao Zhu (2025). The Longitudinal Influence of Parent–Grandparent Coparenting Relationships on Preschoolers’ Eating Behaviors in Chinese Urban Families: The Mediating Roles of Caregivers’ Feeding Behaviors Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17182961
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