The Role of External Sources of Information in Children's Evaluative Food Categories

Autor/in	Nguyen, Simone P.
Titel	The Role of External Sources of Information in Children's Evaluative Food Categories
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 21 (2012) 2, S.216-235 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.745
Schlagwörter	Information Sources; Food; Childhood Attitudes; Information Seeking; Health Behavior; Preferences; Health Education; Nutrition Instruction; Questionnaires; Interviews; Scores; Mothers; Cartoons; Toddlers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Information source; Informationsquelle; Lebensmittel; Informationserschließung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Nutrition education; Ernährungserziehung; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Mother; Mutter; Zeichentrickfilm; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind
Abstract	Evaluative food categories are value-laden assessments, which reflect the healthfulness and palatability of foods (e.g. healthy/unhealthy, yummy/yucky). In a series of three studies, this research examines how 3- to 4-year-old children (N?=?147) form evaluative food categories based on input from external sources of information. The results indicate that children prefer to ask a mom and teacher over a cartoon and child for information about the evaluative status of foods. However, children are cautious to accept information about healthy foods from all of the external sources compared with unhealthy, yummy and yucky foods. The results also indicate that providing information about the positive taste of healthy foods helps to encourage children to select healthy foods to eat. Taken together, these results have potential implications for children's health and nutrition education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10