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Table 2 Assessment of parental functioning

From: Obese parents – obese children? Psychological-psychiatric risk factors of parental behavior and experience for the development of obesity in children aged 0–3: study protocol

Variable

Method of data collection

Assessment point

  

t1

t2

t3

Height and weight

Measurement in the lab

x

x

x

Mothers’ weight before and during pregnancy, problems during pregnancy

Copy from the “Mutterpass”

x

  

Attitudes to feeding

Maternal Feeding Attitudes Scale (MFA)

x

  

Mental disorders

German version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)

x

x

x

Body-image

Multidimensional Body Self-Relations Questionnaire

  

x

Stress

Short form of the Parenting Stress Index, Third Edition (PSI:3)

x

x

x

Lifestyle

adapted version of the Leipziger Lifestyle questionnaire for adolescents (LLfJ)

x

 

x

Parenting practices

Adapted German version of the Parenting Practices Questionnaire

 

x

x

Satisfaction with Life

Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)

 

x

x

Global self-esteem

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE)

  

x

Eating style

Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ)

 

x

x

Feeding style

German Questionnaire “Instrument zur Erfassung elterlicherSteuerungsstrategien in der Essenssituation” (ISS), based on the Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) and Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ)

 

x

x

Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ)

   

Emotion recognition and understanding

German version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-26)

x

  

German version of the MSCEIT (Subscales C and G)

x

  

Decoding facial expressions of emotions

x

  

Infant Facial Expressions of Emotion from Looking at Pictures (IFEEL)

x

  

Mothers’ reflective functioning

Adult attachment interview with the coding system by Fonagy and colleagues

 

x