TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring behavioural susceptibility to obesity
T2 - Validation of the child eating behaviour questionnaire
AU - Carnell, Susan
AU - Wardle, Jane
N1 - Funding Information:
Many thanks are due to Leigh Gibson for his vital contribution to the study design; to Jo Cecil for her advice on the practical running of the caloric compensation trials, test lunches and Eating without Hunger test; and to Lucy Cooke for invaluable help with data collection. This research was funded by a PhD studentship from the Medical Research Council, with support from core funding from Cancer Research UK.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - The Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ; [Wardle, J., Guthrie, C.A., Sanderson, S., & Rapoport, L. (2001). Development of the children's eating behaviour questionnaire. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 963-970]) is a parent-report questionnaire designed to assess eating styles related to obesity risk. It has been shown to have a robust factor structure and good internal reliability, but has not been validated against behavioural measures of eating. In the present study, associations were examined between three CEBQ scales (Satiety Responsiveness, SR; Food Responsiveness, FR; Enjoyment of Food, EF) and four aspects of eating behaviour (eating without hunger, caloric compensation, eating rate and energy intake at a meal) aggregated across up to five occasions, in a sample of 4-5-year olds. In multiple regression, the aggregated behavioural measures of eating explained 56% of the variance in SR, 33% of the variance in FR and 40% of the variance in EF. These findings support the validity of the CEBQ as a parent-report instrument to assess 'obesogenic' eating behaviours in children. An easily-administered measure such as the CEBQ will be valuable in gathering data on the scale required to study the behavioural phenotype associated with obesity risk.
AB - The Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ; [Wardle, J., Guthrie, C.A., Sanderson, S., & Rapoport, L. (2001). Development of the children's eating behaviour questionnaire. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 963-970]) is a parent-report questionnaire designed to assess eating styles related to obesity risk. It has been shown to have a robust factor structure and good internal reliability, but has not been validated against behavioural measures of eating. In the present study, associations were examined between three CEBQ scales (Satiety Responsiveness, SR; Food Responsiveness, FR; Enjoyment of Food, EF) and four aspects of eating behaviour (eating without hunger, caloric compensation, eating rate and energy intake at a meal) aggregated across up to five occasions, in a sample of 4-5-year olds. In multiple regression, the aggregated behavioural measures of eating explained 56% of the variance in SR, 33% of the variance in FR and 40% of the variance in EF. These findings support the validity of the CEBQ as a parent-report instrument to assess 'obesogenic' eating behaviours in children. An easily-administered measure such as the CEBQ will be valuable in gathering data on the scale required to study the behavioural phenotype associated with obesity risk.
KW - Eating in the absence of hunger
KW - Food cues
KW - Intake regulation
KW - Overweight
KW - Phenotype
KW - Preload
KW - Psychometric
KW - Satiety sensitivity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.appet.2006.07.075
DO - 10.1016/j.appet.2006.07.075
M3 - Article
C2 - 16962207
AN - SCOPUS:33847018025
SN - 0195-6663
VL - 48
SP - 104
EP - 113
JO - Appetite
JF - Appetite
IS - 1
ER -