# Direct and indirect relationships between Food Parental Practices, diet quality, and food satisfaction in adolescents

## TL;DR

This study explores how parental feeding practices influence adolescents' food satisfaction, either directly or through their impact on diet quality.

## Contribution

The study identifies diet quality as a mediator between specific parental practices and adolescent food satisfaction.

## Key findings

- Diet quality mediates the relationship between parental modeling and adolescent control over food satisfaction.
- Monitoring and restrictive practices for weight control have a direct effect on food satisfaction.
- Parental feeding practices are linked to adolescent food satisfaction through both direct and indirect pathways.

## Abstract

The relationship between four parental feeding practices from the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire for adolescents (CFPQ-Teen) and Satisfaction With Food-related Life (SWFoL) in adolescents was evaluated using diet quality measured using the Adapted Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) as a mediating variable.

Participants were 860 adolescents aged 10–16 years of both sexes who responded to four factors on the CFPQ-Teen, food satisfaction scale, and diet quality index. Structural equation analysis was used in a structural mediation model on a polychoric correlation matrix using the weighted least squares mean-variance adjusted (WLSMV) method.

Diet quality was a mediating factor in the interaction between two parental practices related to parental modeling and adolescent control over SWFoL. There was evidence of a direct relationship between monitoring and restrictive factors for weight control and SWFoL.

The findings indicated that the association between parental feeding practices and food satisfaction may be direct or mediated by diet quality in adolescents.